Astaxanthin from Shrimp Cephalothorax Stimulates the Immune Response by Enhancing IFN-γ, IL-10, and IL-2 Secretion in Splenocytes of -Infected Mice.

Infection with is a critical cause of gastrointestinal diseases. A crucial host response associated with infection includes gastric inflammation, which is characterized by a sustained recruitment of T-helper (Th) cells to the site of infection and distinct patterns of cytokine production. Adequate nutritional status, especially frequent consumption of dietary antioxidants, appears to protect against infection with .

Authentication of fish products by large-scale comparison of tandem mass spectra.

Authentication of food is a major concern worldwide to ensure that food products are correctly labeled in terms of which animals are actually processed for consumption. Normally authentication is based on species recognition by comparison of selected sequences of DNA or protein. We here present a new robust, proteome-wide tandem mass spectrometry method for species recognition and food product authentication.

Multispectral image analysis for robust prediction of astaxanthin coating.

The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of predicting the type and concentration level of astaxanthin coating of aquaculture feed pellets using multispectral image analysis. We used both natural and synthetic astaxanthin, and we used several different concentration levels of synthetic astaxanthin in combination with four different recipes of feed pellets. We used a VideometerLab with 20 spectral bands in the range of 385-1050 nm.

Tissue damage in organic rainbow trout muscle investigated by proteomics and bioinformatics.

The response to tissue damage is a complex process, which involves the coordinated regulation of multiple proteins to ensure tissue repair. In order to investigate the effect of tissue damage in a lower vertebrate, samples were taken from rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) at day 7 after damage and proteins were separated using 2DE. The experimental design included two groups of rainbow trout, which were fed organic feed either with or without astaxanthin.

Image analysis of pellet size for a control system in industrial feed production.

When producing aquaculture fish feed pellets, the size of the output product is of immense importance. As the production method cannot produce pellets of constant and uniform size using constant machine settings, there is a demand for size control. Fish fed with feed pellets of improper size are prone to not grow as expected, which is undesirable to the aquaculture industry.

Fibroblasts express immune relevant genes and are important sentinel cells during tissue damage in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss).

Fibroblasts have shown to be an immune competent cell type in mammals. However, little is known about the immunological functions of this cell-type in lower vertebrates. A rainbow trout hypodermal fibroblast cell-line (RTHDF) was shown to be responsive to PAMPs and DAMPs after stimulation with LPS from E.

Cutaneous immune responses in the common carp detected using transcript analysis.

In order to detect new immune-related genes in common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) challenged by an ectoparasitic infection, two cDNA libraries were constructed from carp skin sampled at 3 and 72h after infection with Ichthyophthirius multifiliis. In a total of 3500 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) we identified 82 orthologues of genes of immune relevance previously described in other organisms.