5 results on '"Billon, Yvon"'
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2. Responses of pigs divergently selected for cortisol response or feed efficiency to an ACTH challenge
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Gilbert, Hélène, Mormede, Elena, Louveau, Isabelle, Ruesche, Julien, Gress, Laure, Billon, Yvon, Mormède, Pierre, Larzul, Catherine, Génétique Physiologie et Systèmes d'Elevage (GenPhySE ), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse (ENVT), Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-École nationale supérieure agronomique de Toulouse [ENSAT], Physiologie, Environnement et Génétique pour l'Animal et les Systèmes d'Elevage [Rennes] (PEGASE), AGROCAMPUS OUEST-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), UE 1372 Génétique, Expérimentation et Système Innovants, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Génétique animale (G.A.)-Physiologie Animale et Systèmes d'Elevage (PHASE), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Génétique, Expérimentation et Système Innovants (GenESI), École nationale supérieure agronomique de Toulouse [ENSAT]-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse (ENVT), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AGROCAMPUS OUEST, Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), Génétique, Expérimentation et Système Innovants (GenESI), and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
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endocrine system ,genetique ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,efficacité alimentaire ,Cortisol ,swine ,robustness ,robustesse ,hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists ,porc - Abstract
Selection for feed efficiency can impair the animal’s ability to respond to stress. A key driver of this response is the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, which releases cortisol in response to stressors. Injection of a normalized dose of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) to stimulate cortisol release by the adrenal cortex is a standardized method to evaluate the activity of the HPA axis independently of the animal’s perception of stress. It has been used to select during three generations a highCortisol line and a lowCortisol line, that had divergent cortisol levels 1 h after ACTH injection (H1, peak of the response). A trial was set up to compare the responses to ACTH of these two lines and those of two other lines divergently selected for residual feed intake (RFI, measure of net feed efficiency) during nine generations. At 6 weeks of age, 48 pigs per line were tested. Blood samples were collected before and 1 (H1) and 4 h after injection (H4) when cortisol is expected to return to basal level. In the Cortisol lines, plasma cortisol was multiplied by 2 (P
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3. Time course study of the response to LPS targeting the pig immune gene networks.
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Terenina, Elena, Sautron, Valérie, Ydier, Caroline, Bazovkina, Darya, Sevin-Pujol, Amélie, Gress, Laure, Lippi, Yannick, Naylies, Claire, Billon, Yvon, Liaubet, Laurence, Mormede, Pierre, and Villa-Vialaneix, Nathalie
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HYDROCORTISONE ,HYPOTHALAMIC-pituitary-adrenal axis ,LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES ,LEUCOCYTES ,ROBUST control - Abstract
Background: Stress is a generic term used to describe non-specific responses of the body to all kinds of challenges. A very large variability in the response can be observed across individuals, depending on numerous conditioning factors like genetics, early influences and life history. As a result, there is a wide range of individual vulnerability and resilience to stress, also called robustness. The importance of robustness-related traits in breeding strategies is increasing progressively towards the production of animals with a high level of production under a wide range of climatic conditions and management systems, together with a lower environmental impact and a high level of animal welfare. The present study aims at describing blood transcriptomic, hormonal, and metabolic responses of pigs to a systemic challenge using lipopolysaccharide (LPS). The objective is to analyze the individual variation of the biological responses in relation to the activity of the HPA axis measured by the levels of plasma cortisol after LPS and ACTH in 120 juvenile Large White (LW) pigs. The kinetics of the response was measured with biological variables and whole blood gene expression at 4 time points. A multilevel statistical analysis was used to take into account the longitudinal aspect of the data. Results: Cortisol level reaches its peak 4 h after LPS injection. The characteristic changes of white blood cell count to LPS were observed, with a decrease of total count, maximal at t = +4 h, and the mirror changes in the respective proportions of lymphocytes and granulocytes. The lymphocytes / granulocytes ratio was maximal at t = +1 h. An integrative statistical approach was used and provided a set of candidate genes for kinetic studies and ongoing complementary studies focused on the LPS-stimulated inflammatory response. Conclusions: The present study demonstrates the specific biomarkers indicative of an inflammation in swine. Furthermore, these stress responses persist for prolonged periods of time and at significant expression levels, making them good candidate markers for evaluating the efficacy of anti-inflammatory drugs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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4. Time course of the response to ACTH in pig: biological and transcriptomic study.
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Sautron, Valérie, Terenina, Elena, Gress, Laure, Lippi, Yannick, Billon, Yvon, Larzul, Catherine, Liaubet, Laurence, Villa-Vialaneix, Nathalie, and Mormède, Pierre
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ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC hormone ,HYDROCORTISONE ,LABORATORY swine ,GENE expression ,LYMPHOCYTES ,MONOCYTES ,GLUCOCORTICOIDS ,TRANSCRIPTION factors - Abstract
Background: HPA axis plays a major role in physiological homeostasis. It is also involved in stress and adaptive response to the environment. In farm animals in general and specifically in pigs, breeding strategies have highly favored production traits such as lean growth rate, feed efficiency and prolificacy at the cost of robustness. On the hypothesis that the HPA axis could contribute to the trade-off between robustness and production traits, we have designed this experiment to explore individual variation in the biological response to the main stress hormone, cortisol, in pigs. We used ACTH injections to trigger production of cortisol in 120 juvenile Large White (LW) pigs from 28 litters and the kinetics of the response was measured with biological variables and whole blood gene expression at 4 time points. A multilevel statistical analysis was used to take into account the longitudinal aspect of the data. Results: Cortisol level reached its peak 1 h after ACTH injection. White blood cell composition was modified with a decrease of lymphocytes and monocytes and an increase of granulocytes (FDR < 0.05). Basal level of cortisol was correlated with birth and weaning weights. Microarray analysis identified 65 unique genes of which expression responded to the injection of ACTH (adjusted P < 0.05). These genes were classified into 4 clusters with distinctive kinetics in response to ACTH injection. The first cluster identified genes strongly correlated to cortisol and previously reported as being regulated by glucocorticoids. In particular, DDIT4, DUSP1, FKBP5, IL7R, NFKBIA, PER1, RGS2 and RHOB were shown to be connected to each other by the glucocorticoid receptor NR3C1. Most of the differentially expressed genes that encode transcription factors have not been described yet as being important in transcription networks involved in stress response. Their co-expression may mean co-regulation and they could thus provide new patterns of biomarkers of the individual sensitivity to cortisol. Conclusions: We identified 65 genes as biological markers of HPA axis activation at the gene expression level. These genes might be candidates for a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of the stress response. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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5. Acute social stress-induced immunomodulation in pigs high and low responders to ACTH.
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Bacou, Elodie, Haurogné, Karine, Mignot, Grégoire, Allard, Marie, De Beaurepaire, Laurence, Marchand, Jordan, Terenina, Elena, Billon, Yvon, Jacques, Julien, Bach, Jean-Marie, Mormède, Pierre, Hervé, Julie, and Lieubeau, Blandine
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SWINE physiology , *IMMUNOREGULATION , *ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC hormone , *HYPOTHALAMIC-pituitary-adrenal axis , *SWINE breeding , *INTERLEUKIN-8 , *CD4 antigen - Abstract
Pig husbandry is known as an intensive breeding system, piglets being submitted to multiple stressful events such as early weaning, successive mixing, crowding and shipping. These stressors are thought to impair immune defences and might contribute, at least partly, to the prophylactic use of antibiotics. Robustness was recently defined as the ability of an individual to express a high-production potential in a wide variety of environmental conditions. Increasing robustness thus appears as a valuable option to improve resilience to stressors and could be obtained by selecting piglets upon their adrenocortical activity. In this study, we aimed at depicting the consequences of an acute social stress on the immune capacity of piglets genetically selected upon divergent hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis activity. For this purpose, we monitored neuroendocrine and immune parameters, in high- (HPA hi ) and low- (HPA lo ) responders to ACTH, just before and immediately after a one-hour mixing with unfamiliar conspecifics. As expected, stressed piglets displayed higher levels of circulating cortisol and norepinephrine. Blood cell count analysis combined to flow cytometry revealed a stress-induced leukocyte mobilization in the bloodstream with a specific recruitment of CD8α + lymphocytes. Besides, one-hour mixing decreased LPS-induced IL-8 and TNFα secretions in whole-blood assays (WBA) and reduced mononuclear cell phagocytosis. Altogether, our data demonstrate that acute social stress alters immune competence of piglets from both groups, and bring new insights in favour of good farming practices. While for most parameters high- and low-responders to ACTH behaved similarly, HPA hi piglets displayed higher number of CD4 + CD8α − T cells, as well as increased cytokine production in WBA (LPS-induced TNFα and PIL-induced IL-8), which could confer them increased resistance to pathogens. Finally, a principal component analysis including all parameters highlighted that overall stress effects were less pronounced on piglets with a strong HPA axis. Thus, selection upon adrenocortical axis activity seems to reduce the magnitude of response to stress and appears as a good tool to increase piglet robustness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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