Special Issue "The Neonate: Care and Immunity"
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Physiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2022.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: neonate; passive immunity; subunit vaccines; cattle; acute-phase proteins; IgY
Interests: acute phase proteins in cattle, diagnostics of the reasons for the birth of stillborn calves in dairy cattle
Interests: problems with different parameters influencing pig health and production
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The neonates’ metabolism differs markedly from adolescent and adults. The immune system develops in mammals at prenatal period and majority of neonates are able to respond against majority of environmental antigens at birth, however this response is weaker and easier to break comparing to adults The passive transfer of maternal immunity happens in mammals via placenta or/and via colostrum. The intensity, quality of this process influence significantly the immune protection of the neonate at first weeks and months of life. Moreover, during first weeks of life the significant changes associated with maturation of the gastrointestinal, as well as urinary tract happen. The complicated process of maturation and development may be disturbed by factors affecting in the prenatal, perinatal and postnatal periods. Changes/disturbances in the course of pregnancy (like intrauterine growth retardation), the course of parturition and interactions of neonates after birth with the environment factors influence the health, development, survival and longevity of animals. Comparing to human medicine there is a gap of knowledge in animals. This special issue will present the findings of some research groups involved in the neonatal problems of livestock animals.
Prof. Tadeusz Stefaniak
Prof. Paulina Jawor
Prof. Anna Rząsa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Neonate
- Perinatal mortality
- Passive immunity
- Intrauterine growth retardation
- Gastrointestinal tract
- Calf
- Piglet
- Growth and maturation.
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Urinary protein excretion in calves during the first week of life.
Authors: Skrzypczak Wiesław; Ożgo Małgorzata; Dratwa Alicja; Drzeżdżon Dariusz; Boniecka Karolina
Affiliation: West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin; Szczecin; Poland
Title: Effects of selected prebiotics or synbiotics administered in ovo on lymphocyte subsets in bursa of Fabricius, thymus and spleen in non-immunized and immunized chicken broilers.
Authors: Marianna Szczypka; Agnieszka Suszko-Pawłowska; Maciej Kuczkowski; Michał Gorczykowski; Magdalena Lis; Artur Kowalczyk; Ewa Łukaszewicz; Dominik Poradowski; Iwona Zbyryt; Tadeusz Stefaniak; Marek Bednarczyk
Affiliation: Uniwersytet Technologiczno - Przyrodniczy w Bydgoszczy, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Title: Role of infection and immunity in bovine perinatal mortality
Authors: Paulina Jawor; John Mee; Tadeusz Stefaniak
Affiliation: Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland
Title: Differences in intestinal barrier development in intrauterine growth restricted and normal birth-weight piglets
Authors: Jarosław Olszewski; Romuald Zabielski; Piotr Matyba; Małgorzata Wielgosz; Antoni Adamski; Zdzisław Gajewski; Karolina Ferenc
Affiliation: Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego, Warsaw, Poland
Title: Intrauterine growth retarded pig from farm to table
Authors: Piotr Matyba; Tomasz Florowski; Krzysztof Dasiewicz; Karolina Ferenc; Jarosław Olszewski; Michał Trela; Gilbert Galemba; Mirosław Słowiński; Zdzisław Gajewski; Romuald Zabielski
Affiliation: Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego, Warsaw, Poland