Constitutive Immune Function Responds More Slowly to Handling Stress than Corticosterone in a Shorebird
Ecological immunologists are interested in how immune function changes during different seasons and under different environmental conditions. However, an obstacle to answering such questions is discerning the effects of biological factors of interest and investigation artifacts such as handling stre...
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ftunivbelgradimr:oai:rimsi.imsi.bg.ac.rs:123456789/2607 2023-12-31T10:05:39+01:00 Constitutive Immune Function Responds More Slowly to Handling Stress than Corticosterone in a Shorebird Buehler, Deborah M. Bhola, Nina Stanković, Daliborka Goymann, Wolfgang Schwabl, Ingrid Tieleman, B. Irene Piersma, Theunis 2008 http://rimsi.imsi.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2607 https://doi.org/10.1086/588591 http://rimsi.imsi.bg.ac.rs/bitstream/id/6671/Buehleretal_2008PBZ.pdf en eng The University of Chicago Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) PGSB-267701-2003 University of Groningen Ubbo Emmius Scholarship Schure-Beijerinck-Popping Fonds University of Groningen Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research 1522-2152 http://rimsi.imsi.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2607 doi:10.1086/588591 http://rimsi.imsi.bg.ac.rs/bitstream/id/6671/Buehleretal_2008PBZ.pdf openAccess ARR Physiological and Biochemical Zoology Constitutive immune/corticosterone/stress/baseline/Shorebirds article publishedVersion 2008 ftunivbelgradimr https://doi.org/10.1086/588591 2023-12-05T17:22:13Z Ecological immunologists are interested in how immune function changes during different seasons and under different environmental conditions. However, an obstacle to answering such questions is discerning the effects of biological factors of interest and investigation artifacts such as handling stress. Here we examined handling stress and its effects on constitutive (noninduced) immune function via two protocols on captive red knots (Calidris canutus). We investigated how constitutive immunity responds to handling stress, how quickly these changes take place, and the practical implications for researchers interested in sampling baseline immune levels. We found that Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans killing increased with handling stress while total leukocyte and lymphocyte concentrations decreased. However, although corticosterone increased significantly and rapidly in response to handling stress, none of the 10 measures of constitutive immunity that we tested differed significantly from baseline withinn20 or 30 min of capture. Thus, researchers interested in baseline immune function should sample animals as soon as possible after capture, but studies in species not easily sampled in less than 3 min (such as red knots) could still yield useful results. Article in Journal/Newspaper Calidris canutus RIMSI - Repository of Institute for Multidisciplinary Research (University of Belgrade) Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 81 5 673 681 |
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Ecological immunologists are interested in how immune function changes during different seasons and under different environmental conditions. However, an obstacle to answering such questions is discerning the effects of biological factors of interest and investigation artifacts such as handling stress. Here we examined handling stress and its effects on constitutive (noninduced) immune function via two protocols on captive red knots (Calidris canutus). We investigated how constitutive immunity responds to handling stress, how quickly these changes take place, and the practical implications for researchers interested in sampling baseline immune levels. We found that Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans killing increased with handling stress while total leukocyte and lymphocyte concentrations decreased. However, although corticosterone increased significantly and rapidly in response to handling stress, none of the 10 measures of constitutive immunity that we tested differed significantly from baseline withinn20 or 30 min of capture. Thus, researchers interested in baseline immune function should sample animals as soon as possible after capture, but studies in species not easily sampled in less than 3 min (such as red knots) could still yield useful results. |
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Buehler, Deborah M. Bhola, Nina Stanković, Daliborka Goymann, Wolfgang Schwabl, Ingrid Tieleman, B. Irene Piersma, Theunis |
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Buehler, Deborah M. Bhola, Nina Stanković, Daliborka Goymann, Wolfgang Schwabl, Ingrid Tieleman, B. Irene Piersma, Theunis |
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Buehler, Deborah M. |
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Constitutive Immune Function Responds More Slowly to Handling Stress than Corticosterone in a Shorebird |
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Constitutive Immune Function Responds More Slowly to Handling Stress than Corticosterone in a Shorebird |
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Constitutive Immune Function Responds More Slowly to Handling Stress than Corticosterone in a Shorebird |
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Constitutive Immune Function Responds More Slowly to Handling Stress than Corticosterone in a Shorebird |
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Constitutive Immune Function Responds More Slowly to Handling Stress than Corticosterone in a Shorebird |
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constitutive immune function responds more slowly to handling stress than corticosterone in a shorebird |
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The University of Chicago |
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2008 |
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http://rimsi.imsi.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2607 https://doi.org/10.1086/588591 http://rimsi.imsi.bg.ac.rs/bitstream/id/6671/Buehleretal_2008PBZ.pdf |
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Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) PGSB-267701-2003 University of Groningen Ubbo Emmius Scholarship Schure-Beijerinck-Popping Fonds University of Groningen Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research 1522-2152 http://rimsi.imsi.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2607 doi:10.1086/588591 http://rimsi.imsi.bg.ac.rs/bitstream/id/6671/Buehleretal_2008PBZ.pdf |
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