The comparative serological response of the chicken, pheasant and quail to a soluble and a particulate antigen.
Year: 1974
Type: article
Abstract: A saline solution of bovine serum albumin (40 mg/kg) readily stimulated the production of precipitins and passive haemagglutinating (HA) antibodies in adult chickens and pheasants, but not in quail, following a primary (day 0) and secondary (day 38) intravenous injection. In quail a primary injection of BSA in Freund's complete adjuvant produced low passive HA titres but not precipitins; a further injection of soluble antigen intravenously on day 25 resulted in greatly enhanced passive HA titres and the appearance of precipitins. A single intravenous injection of sheep erythrocytes (10(9)/kg) promptly evoked an agglutinin response in all three species, with the chicken yielding the highest and the quail the lowest titres. A second injection, 21 days later, stimulated titres higher than those achieved during the initial response only in the quail.
Source: PubMed Central
Authors: I D Aitken, S H Parry
Language: English
Topic: T-cell and B-cell Immunology
Subfield: Immunology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W141822232