Short communication: Characterizing ovine serum stress biomarkers during endotoxemia.

Naylor, D.; Sharma, A.; Li, Z.; Monteith, G.; Sullivan, T.; Canovas, A.; Mallard, B. A.; Baes, C.; Karrow, N. A. (2020). Short communication: Characterizing ovine serum stress biomarkers during endotoxemia. Journal of dairy science, 103(6), pp. 5501-5508. American Dairy Science Association 10.3168/jds.2019-17718

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Breeding stress-resilient livestock is a potential strategy to help mitigate the negative effect of environmental and pathogenic stressors. The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and immune system are activated during stress events and release mediators into the circulation that help restore physiological homeostasis. The purpose of this study was to assess a comprehensive set of circulatory mediators released in response to an acute immune stress challenge to identify candidate biomarkers that can be used for the selection of stress-resilient animals. Fifteen female lambs were stress challenged with an intravenous bolus of lipopolysaccharide (LPS; 400 ng/kg), and blood was collected from the jugular vein at 0, 2, 4, and 6 h after LPS challenge to identify and monitor candidate stress biomarkers; temperature was also recorded over time. Biomarker responses were evaluated with a repeated-measures model to compare time points with baseline values. As expected, all sheep had a monophasic febrile response to LPS challenge, and cortisol increased and returned to baseline by 6 h. The cytokines tumor necrosis factor-α, IL-6, IFN-γ (proinflammatory), and IL-10 (anti-inflammatory) increased, but only tumor necrosis factor-α returned to baseline during the monitoring period. The cytokines IL-1α, IL-1β, IL-17α (proinflammatory), and IL-4 (anti-inflammatory) did not respond to LPS challenge. All chemokines (CCL2, CCL3, CCL4, CXCL10, and IL-8) responded to LPS challenge; however, only CCL2, CCL3, CCL4, and CXCL10 increased over time, and only CCL3, CCL4, and CXCL10 returned to baseline during the monitoring period. MicroRNA (miR-145, miR-233, and miR-1246) also increased and remained elevated during the study. In summary, the LPS challenge induced a strong stress response in Rideau-Dorset sheep that could be monitored with a distinct profile of circulatory biomarkers.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

05 Veterinary Medicine > Department of Clinical Research and Veterinary Public Health (DCR-VPH) > Institute of Genetics
05 Veterinary Medicine > Department of Clinical Research and Veterinary Public Health (DCR-VPH)

UniBE Contributor:

Baes, Christine Francoise

Subjects:

500 Science > 590 Animals (Zoology)
600 Technology > 630 Agriculture

ISSN:

0022-0302

Publisher:

American Dairy Science Association

Language:

English

Submitter:

Christine Francoise Baes

Date Deposited:

05 Aug 2020 08:43

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:39

Publisher DOI:

10.3168/jds.2019-17718

PubMed ID:

32307170

Uncontrolled Keywords:

biomarker lipopolysaccharide sheep stress

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.145580

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/145580

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