Stress Management in Poultry
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Poultry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 11251
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Interests: feed additives; nutritional physiology; microbiology
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Dear Colleagues,
Inflammation, regardless of its cause or nature, is the body’s response to cellular injury and the final stage of the stress process (biological, environmental, nutritional, physical, chemical, or psychological). Stress and inflammation are nonspecific defense mechanisms (innate responses) involving hormones, neuropeptides, immune cells, and molecular mediators essential for the survival and healing processes in all living organisms. During a stressful situation, the autonomic nervous system, and the endocrine hormones (adrenaline and glucocorticoids), prepare every single cell in the body to either "fight or flight". If the stressful signal persists, the animal remains in "survival mode", a biological process intended to be short and acute. Nevertheless, if the stress continues, stress hormones and other pro-inflammatory molecules remain in circulation, keeping the animal in a chronic state of survival, oxidative stress and chronic systemic inflammation and in the process oxidative stress damages cell and mitochondria membranes (lipid peroxidation), compromising cell physiology in all tissues and organs. For these reasons, chronic stress and inflammation are identified as "secret killers".
Areas of interest: nutrition; physiology; welfare; endocrinology; poultry production and management; gut health; pathology; microbiology; immunology.
We invite you to share your recent findings through this Special Issue.
Dr. Guillermo Tellez-Isaias
Dr. Brittany Danielle M. Graham
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- poultry
- stress
- inflammation
- oxidative stress
- welfare
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