Environmental Factors on Lipid Peroxides and Antioxidant Status in Animals
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2020) | Viewed by 4632
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Life is associated with a range of stresses, including environmental and technological stress of farm animals. There is a lot of experimental evidence that most of these stresses are associated with lipid peroxide formation, therefore affecting the antioxidant status of animals. Among the environmental factors, there is the importance of UV-B radiation, ozone, deficiency or excess of nutrients, starvation or overfeeding. Probably the most important stressor is environmental temperature, which causes heat stress. There are numerous data about the effect of heat stress on lipid peroxide formation and on antioxidant status both for avian or mammalian species. Oxygen is essential for aerobic life, and therefore, hypoxia or hyperoxia are also important stress factors which activate oxygen-free radical formation and affect the antioxidant status. Among the technological stress factors, the effect of social stress in an unknown area of antioxidant research; however, there are previous studies about the positive effect of some low molecular weight antioxidants against the detrimental effect of social stress in large-scale animal production systems. All of the abovementioned stresses have a direct effect on the lipid peroxide formation and antioxidant status of animals, but regulation of these processes is not completely known yet.
As Guest Editor, I invite you to contribute to the Special Issue on “Environmental Factors on Lipid Peroxides and Antioxidant Status of Animals”. Original research reports and reviews will be published online in Antioxidants.
Prof. Miklós Mézes
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- environmental stress
- heat stress
- nutritional stress
- hypoxia
- hyperoxia
- social stress
- lipid peroxides
- antioxidant status
