Nutritional Physiology in Ruminants: Immune Status and Antioxidant Capacity
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Physiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 73
Special Issue Editors
Interests: veterinary medicine; oxidative stress; erythrocytes; animal nutrition; animal matrices; physiology; antioxidant; reactive oxygen species
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Interests: toxicology; animal matrices; antioxidants
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Hormone assays in different animal matrices are excellent tools used as indicators of animal health status, food availability, and nutritional status. Limited food availability can cause stress and reduce animals' antioxidant defences, leading to altered immune status and affecting animal health and welfare. On the contrary, a diet rich in antioxidants could improve animal welfare by reducing oxidative damage.
Therefore, new tools to evaluate the redox balance and immunological status in animal matrices would be of great interest to preserve animal health. Recently, this topic has been studied by the scientific community on ruminants.
This Special Issue aims to create a collection of manuscripts that include, but are not limited, to the following topics in different matrices of ruminants:
- Studies to monitor ruminant's health and welfare correlated to redox balance parameters or immunological status.
- Validation of analytical methods for antioxidant and prooxidant parameters or hormone assays.
- Studies about redox balance parameters or immunological status monitoring after nutritional supplements in ruminant feed.
We are interested in the following types of manuscripts: original research articles, review articles, case studies, and in vivo and in vitro studies.
Dr. Valeria Pasciu
Dr. Elena Baralla
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antioxidant
- oxidative stress
- animal matrices
- redox balance
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