Rövid leírás:

The book provides updated information about different immunomodulators in fish health management and sustainable aquaculture. It covers different types of immunostimulants, their modes of action, and their efficacies. It also reviews safety concerns, ethical regulations, limitations, and ways to minimize antibiotic use in aquaculture.

Hosszú leírás:

This reference book provides updated information about different immunomodulators for managing fish health and sustainable aquaculture. Immunomodulators are dietary additives that enhance innate defense mechanisms and increase resistance against specific pathogens and diseases. The book covers the different types of immunostimulants, their modes of action, and their efficacies. It also reviews safety concerns, ethical regulations, limitations, and outreach to farmers. It discusses the application of herbal immunomodulators, antioxidants, pre- and pro-biotics, in disease management.

Features:

• Reviews the pressing topic of reduction of antibiotic use in aquaculture


• Discusses herbal immunomodulators, nutrients, antioxidants and pre- and pro-biotics


• Covers the topic of progressive immunomodulation using nanotechnology


• Discusses fish health management in the ever-growing aquaculture industry


• Includes natural and synthetic immunomodulators

The book is meant for researchers and industry experts in aquaculture, fisheries science, and veterinary medicine.

Tartalomjegyzék:

Section I: Immunomodulators: An overview. 1. Immunomodulators: An Introduction. 2. Natural and synthetic immunomodulators: inferences for stress responses in aquaculture fish. 3. Immunomodulators: Mode of action. 4. Immunomodulator and stress oxidative. Section II: Immunomodulators and sustainable aquaculture development. 5. Immunomodulators to Prevent Diseases and Minimize Antimicrobial Use. 6. Immunomodulation in aquaculture health management: opportunities and obstacles. 7. Disease management and prophylaxis by immunostimulants. 8. Application of Immunostimulants for aquaculture health management. Section III: Immunomodulators in Aquaculture health management. 9. Herbal Immunomodulators for aquaculture. 10. Prebiotics and Probiotics as Effective Immunomodulators in Aquaculture. 11. Immunomodulation through nutritional factors, antioxidants and hormones. 12. Cytokines and fish health. 13. Progressive immunomodulation through Nanotechnology. Section IV: Current status of Immunomodulators? in Aquaculture. 14. Efficacy and limitations of immunomodulators. 15. Current status/recent advancements with immunostimulants in aquaculture