Development of piglet’s immune system
N. Salyha
Institute of Animal Biology of UAAS
38, Stus St., Lviv 79034, Ukraine
inenbiol@mail.lviv.ua
Literature and experimental data concerning some aspects of piglet’s immune system development during early postnatal ontogenesis, that is one of the critical life periods and have a number of peculiarities generalized in the article. Problems pertinent to maturation of organs of immune system, transference of antibodies from sow to newborn piglets, possibility of self-dependent production of protective antibodies, development of nonspecific resistance are reviewed in the paper. In the matter of formation of cell immunity it is attached great importance to thymus and its hormones that participate in process of regulation of immune answer.
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Keywords: immune system, antibodies, phagocytosis, thymus, piglets
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