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ArticleTropical animal health and production2020

Dietary supplementation with Withania somnifera root powder ameliorates experimentally induced Infectious Bursal Disease in chicken.

Bhaskar Ganguly, Meena Mrigesh, Premlata Chauhan, Sunil Kumar Rastogi

Open access · bronzeAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial, Veterinary
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Article in Tropical animal health and production, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Promising prospective effects ofFrontiers in veterinary science · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bhaskar GangulyAnimal Biotechnology Center, Department of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. vetbhaskar@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4224-1887
Meena MrigeshDepartment of Veterinary Anatomy, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, 263145, India.
Premlata ChauhanAnimal Biotechnology Center, Department of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India.
Sunil Kumar RastogiAnimal Biotechnology Center, Department of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India.
Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology · IN

Funding

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, India 20-06/2010(i)EU-IV
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infectious Bursal Disease (IBD) is an economically important, immunosuppressive viral disease of chicken. Withania somnifera, a well-known Indian medicinal plant and functional food, finds extensive ethnomedicinal and ethnoveterinary use in the subcontinent. Root extracts of Withania somnifera have been shown to inhibit IBD virus (IBDV) in vitro. The effect of dietary supplementation with whole root powder of Withania somnifera was studied in chicken experimentally infected with IBDV. Dietary supplementation with the root powder improved erythrocytic indices, biochemical parameters, bursal weight index, and lymphocyte stimulation indices, and reduced histopathological insult in the infected birds. Viral load decreased to less than one-fourth in the birds receiving dietary supplementation with Withania somnifera root powder. It could be concluded that continued supplementation of IBDV-infected chicken with Withania somnifera root powder alleviated virus-induced stress and histological and immunological alterations and reduced viral persistence in the host.

Indexed as

Infectious bursal disease virusAnimalsBirnaviridae InfectionsChickensDietary SupplementsFemaleMalePlant ExtractsPlant RootsPlants, MedicinalWithaniaPlant ExtractsImmunityIndian ginsengInfectious Bursal DiseasePhysiologyStressWithania somnifera

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PMID31705357
PMCPMC7223712
OpenAlexW2988616553

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