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IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 164, Issue 2, Pages 211-222Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/imm.13345
Keywords
acute stress regulation; chronic stress regulation; cytotoxic downregulation; IL-8 regulation; proinflammatory
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Aquaculture conditions can make fish more vulnerable to illness and death due to internal and environmental stressors. The brain processes stress signals based on intensity and type, leading to release of catecholamines and glucocorticoids which affect immune system functions. Chronic stress may cause deterioration of cytotoxic functions, increasing morbidity and mortality risk.
Aquaculture conditions expose fish to internal and environmental stressors that increase their susceptibility to morbidity and mortality. The brain accumulates stress signals and processes them according to the intensity, frequency duration and type of stress, recruiting several brain functions to activate the autonomic or limbic system. Triggering the autonomic system causes the rapid release of catecholamines, such as adrenaline and noradrenaline, into circulation from chromaffin cells in the head kidney. Catecholamines trigger blood cells to release proinflammatory and regulatory cytokines to cope with acute stress. Activation of the limbic axis stimulates the dorsolateral and dorsomedial pallium to process emotions, memory, behaviour and the activation of preoptic nucleus-pituitary gland-interrenal cells in the head kidney, releasing glucocorticoids, such as cortisol to the bloodstream. Glucocorticoids cause downregulation of various immune system functions depending on the duration, intensity and type of chronic stress. As stress persists, most immune functions, with the exception of cytotoxic functions, overcome these effects and return to homeostasis. The deterioration of cytotoxic functions during chronic stress appears to be responsible for increased morbidity and mortality.
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