Blood analyses provide substantial information about the physiological aspects of animal
welfare assessment, including the activation status of the neuroendocrine and immune …

Stress is an event that most animals experience and that induces a number of responses
involving all three regulatory systems, neural, endocrine and immune. When the stressor is …

Human beings may affect the welfare of fish through fisheries, aquaculture and a number of
other activities. There is no agreement on just how to weigh the concern for welfare of fish …

Previous reviews of stress, and the stress hormone cortisol, in fish have focussed on
physiology, due to interest in impacts on aquaculture production. Here, we discuss cortisol in …

Fish, as the first vertebrate group appearing in evolution after adaptive radiation during the
Devonic period, still represent the most successful and diverse group of vertebrates. This …

An 84-day feeding trial was conducted to evaluate the effect of the dietary administration of
Bacillus subtilis on the growth performance, body composition, intestinal probiotic recovery …

Zebrafish (Danio rerio) have emerged as a promising model organism to study
development, toxicology, pharmacology, and neuroscience, among other areas. Despite the …

The study investigates the effect of dietary lipids on growth of meagre (Argyrosomus regius)
juveniles. Triplicate groups of fish (average weight±SD, 229.7±1.4 g) were fed for 110days …

Immunoglobulin M (IgM) is a major component of the teleost humoral immune system.
Despite the significance of IgM levels as an immune parameter, there are relatively few …

Gilthead seabream specimens were subjected to an intense short-term crowding stress of
100kg m− 3for 2h. After 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 days, blood glucose and serum cortisol levels, serum …