Effects of environmental enrichment and regrouping on natural autoantibodies-binding danger and neural antigens in healthy pigs with different individual characteristics

Pigs living in commercial husbandry systems may experience both acute stress due to standard management procedures and chronic stress through limitations in their barren housing environment. This might influence their immune status, including antibody responses to neural and danger autoantigens. Lev...

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Main Authors: L. Luo, R. Geers, I. Reimert, B. Kemp, H.K. Parmentier, J.E. Bolhuis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-01-01
Series:Animal
Subjects:
pig
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731117000635