Amino acids as modulators of the European seabass, Dicentrarchus labrax, innate immune response: an in vitro approach.

ABSTRACT: Teleost innate immune system is a most developed and powerful system in which fish highly rely throughout their lives. Conditions in aquaculture farms are particularly prone to disease, thus, health and welfare ensuring strategies are an urgent call to which nutrition is gradually becoming a most regarded achievement tool. This study intended to evaluate different amino acids' effect on immune-related mechanisms as well as their potential as enhancers of European seabass, Dicentrarchus labrax, leucocyte functioning. To achieve these goals, primary cultures of head-kidney leucocytes were established and kept in amino acid (glutamine, arginine, tryptophan or methionine) supplemented culture media in two doses. The effects of amino acids treatments were then evaluated after stimulation with e

SUBMITTER: Azeredo R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5740149 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature