Full Description
The Immunology of Domestic Ruminants: Cattle, Sheep, and Goats provides a thorough examination of the immune systems of these animals. It explores their normal immune functions and their roles in combating infectious and parasitic diseases, chronic inflammatory conditions, and immunodeficiency disorders. The book incorporates new data from the bovine genome project and highlights significant breed differences. Both innate and adaptive immunity are systematically covered, offering insights into basic and applied aspects of bovine immunology. In addition to detailing the immunology of major bacterial, viral, and parasitic diseases in cattle, the book reviews bovine vaccines and emphasizes the importance nutrition.
This essential resource caters to professionals in large animal research and practice, providing comprehensive information on the immunology of domestic cattle, sheep, and goats.
Contents
1. The evolution and domestication of the ruminants
2. Bovine ontogeny, reproduction, and lactation
3. Innate immunity in cattle and other ruminants
4. The ruminant sickness response
5. Bovine leukocytes and erythrocytes
6. Bovine cytokines and chemokines
7. Bovine antigen processing cells: dendritic cells and macrophages
8. The bovine lymphoid system
9. BoLA: The bovine Major Histocompatibility Complex
10. Bovine innate lymphoid cells
11. Ruminant humoral immunity
12. Ruminant T cell responses
13. Immunity on ruminant body surfaces
14. The rumen and the intestinal microbiota
15. Immunity in the mammary gland
16. Bovine vaccines
17. Selected bovine bacterial diseases
18. Selected bovine viral diseases
19. Immunity to selected bovine parasites
20. Ruminant anaphylaxis and allergic diseases
21. Ruminant hypersensitivity diseases
22. Ruminant immunodeficiency diseases
23. Nutrition and the ruminant immune system
24. Aspects of immunity in the sheep
25. Aspects of immunity in the goat
