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REVIEWS IN FISHERIES SCIENCE & AQUACULTURE
Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 315-328Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/23308249.2015.1052365
Keywords
prebiotic; fish; nutrition; immune response
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- Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
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It is now a well-documented fact that there is a distinct relation between fish nutrition and health status. Intensification of aquaculture practice to meet market demand causes stress and elevates the risk of the disease outbreak. Therefore, provisions of proper diets as well as appropriate feeding regimens are of high importance in intensive aquaculture. Considering the negative impacts raised by prophylactic and therapeutic use of antibiotic in aquaculture, administration of dietary immunostimulant has been suggested as an alternative to antimicrobial agents. In this sense, functional dietary supplements, including pre-, pro- and synbiotic received increasing attention as an environment-friendly strategy for improving fish health. During the past years, administration of prebiotics in the diet of different fish species revealed promising results in immune response. In the present review article, the topic of the administration of dietary prebiotics in aquaculture is addressed with a special focus on recent findings regarding the effects of prebiotics on fish immune response and possible mode of action. Furthermore, the present study covers the gap in existing knowledge and suggests issues that merit further investigation.
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