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JOURNAL OF POULTRY SCIENCE
Volume 57, Issue 4, Pages 310-318Publisher
JAPAN POULTRY SCIENCE ASSOC
DOI: 10.2141/jpsa.0190098
Keywords
antimicrobial peptides; chick intestine; cytokines; innate immunity; probiotics; Toll-like receptor
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [17H03904]
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The aim of this study was to determine the effects of live probiotics Lactobacillus reuteri (LR) and Clostridium butyricum (CB) on the expression of genes of innate immune system in broiler chick ileum and cecum. Chicks were administered 500 mu l water with or without LR or CB, daily from day Ito 6 after hatching. The ileum and cecum were collected on day 7 for analysis of gene expression of Toll-like receptors (TLR5), pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines, and antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) using real-time PCR. The expression of TLR2-1 was upregulated by CB in the ileum and that of TLR5 was upregulated by both LR and CB. Expression of IL-1 beta and TGF beta 2 in the ileum and of TGF beta 3 and TGF beta 4 in the cecum was upregulated by both LR and CB. The gene expressions of avian beta-defensin (AvBD) 1 and cathelicidin (CATH) 3 were upregulated by CB and that of AvBD4 was upregulated by LR in the cecum. However, the expression of CATH2 in the ileum was downregulated by LR. These results suggest that probiotic LR and CB treatments affect a part of the innate defense system in the ileum and cecum by modulating the expression of innate immune molecules including TLRs, pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines, and AMPs.
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