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ArticleTropical animal health and production2012

Preliminary comparison of different immune and production components in local and imported Saanen goats reared under a sub-tropical environment.

Elie K Barbour, Houssam H Itani, Fawwak T Sleiman, Maya F Saade, Steve Harakeh, Afif M Abdel Nour, Houssam A Shaib

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Article in Tropical animal health and production, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Elie K BarbourAnimal and Veterinary Sciences Department, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, P.O. Box 11-0236, Riyadh El Solh, Beirut, Lebanon. eb01@aub.edu.lb
Houssam H Itani
Fawwak T Sleiman
Maya F Saade
Steve Harakeh
Afif M Abdel Nour
Houssam A Shaib
American University of Beirut · LBCentre Hospitalier de Beauvais · FRRath Research Institute · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Three objectives were included in this research work. The first objective compared different immune components in healthy mature males, mature females, and female kids of local and imported Saanen goats, reared under a sub-tropical environment. The significantly differing immune components were the blood monocyte percent, blood CD8 count, and the total white blood cell count. The second objective compared the performance of Saanen versus local does. The means of the milk yield and prolificacy of the imported Saanen does were significantly higher than those of the local does (p<0.05). The third objective compared the immune responses (hemagglutination-HA titers) and complement fixation (CF) titers in mature does of the two breeds to chicken red blood cells (c-RBC). The HA titers showed a significant seroconversion only in imported Saanen (p<0.05) but not in local does; however, the CF titers increased significantly at 4 weeks following priming with c-RBC in local (p<0.05) but not in the imported Saanen does. The impact of the differences in blood immune components and responses to antigens in the compared goats on protection potential against prevalent diseases in the sub-tropical zone of the eastern Mediterranean countries is discussed.

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Adaptation, PhysiologicalAge DistributionAnalysis of VarianceAnimalsAntigensBlood Chemical AnalysisCell CountChickensComplement Fixation TestsErythrocytesFemaleGoatsHemagglutination TestsLactationMaleMiddle EastAntigens

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PMID21720787
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