Stress response and antioxidant profile in Egyptian cows naturally infected with lumpy skin disease
Journal Title: Journal of Multidisciplinary Sciences - Year 2020, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is a severe disease of cattle that causes a broad spectrum of economic losses. The purpose of this study is to shed light on some physiological changes that may occur in the infected Egyptian local cows, including the primary and secondary stress responses besides the antioxidant profile. Two groups of Egyptian adult cows were used in the present study. The first group (control group) consisted of 10 clinically healthy cows, while the other one (infected group) consisted of 7 naturally infected LSD cases subjected to routine clinical examination. The clinical investigation revealed the presence of skin lesions passing through different progressive stages, starting from the appearance of nodules until the formation of deep scars. LSD was associated with a well-noted stress response, as exemplified by hyperglycemia, hyperlactatemia, and increases in serum cortisol, urea, and creatinine levels. Marked depletion in serum superoxide dismutase and catalase activities, vitamin E, malondialdehyde, and total peroxide levels were observed in the LSD challenged cows. These findings indicated the ability of LSD to induce stress reactivity and disturb the redox balance, and therefore the application of stress-management strategies and administration of dietary antioxidants are highly recommended to enhance the health status of infected animals. This study paves the road towards other works investigating the differential response of oxidative stress biomarkers to this disease according to its severity and stages and choosing the best antioxidant supplements
Authors and Affiliations
Nasser Sayed Abou Khalil, Hanan Salah Ahmed Waly
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP683706
- DOI https://doi.org/10.33888/jms.2020.213
- Views 220
- Downloads 0
Autonomous height measurement system for smart health monitoring
Height measurement considered as an important parameter for health monitoring. The increasing demand for telemedicine services requires a robust and affordable height measurement system. In addition, the system should ha...
Metabolites and hormones can predict postpartum uterine disorder during transition period of dairy cows
Postpartum uterine diseases in dairy cows have undesirable effects on reproductive efficiency. The current study aimed to evaluate hormones and some metabolites which can predict postpartum uterine disorder in dairy cows...
Nitric oxide-mediated drought stress tolerance via improvement crop yield, antioxidants, membrane integrity and reducing the oxidative stress of two faba bean cultivars
Nitric oxide (NO) is a prevalent signaling molecule that regulates plant responses to potential plant stresses like drought. Growth and seeds yield/plant improvement under drought stress was the net result of the regulat...
Biocontrol of pepper wilt disease by antagonistic fungi and their modes of action for the biocontrol
Thirty species of fungi related to 16 genera were isolated from the rhizosphere soils of healthy pepper plantations in different localities in Assiut (13 localities), Behera (2 localities) and Sohag Governorates (2 local...
Biological characterization of two bacteriophages infecting Klebsiella pneumoniae
Klebsiella became an increasingly important source of community-acquired and nosocomial infections. Extensive broad-spectrum utilization of antibiotics in hospitalized patients has contributed to both increased carriages...