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Dietary L-Arginine Supplementation Improves the Immune Responses in Mouse Model Infected Porcine Circovirus Types 2
Gang Liu, Wenkai Ren, Dingding Su, Miaomiao Wu, Yinghui Li, Wei Luo, Xinglong Yu, Tiejun Li and Jun Fang

Abstract: This study was conducted to test the hypotheses that dietary L-arginine supplementation may enhance the immune responses and resulting in the clearance against PCV2 in experimentally infected mice. The measured variables include: the PCV2 virus load in liver, spleen, heart, lung, kidney, ovary and serum on 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th and 11th day post infection (dpi); serum Interleukin-2 (IL-2), Interleukin-6 (IL-6), Interleukin-10 (IL-10), Interferon alpha (IFN-α), Interferon gamma (IFN-γ) and C-Reactive Protein (CRP) levels on 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th and 11th dpi; serum Total Superoxide Dismutase (T-SOD) activity on 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th and 11th dpi. Results showed that arginine supplementation could significantly increase the serum IL-2 levels on the 9th and 11th dpi; significantly increase the serum IFN-α and CRP levels on the 11th dpi; significantly increase the serum IFN-r levels on the 7th dpi and significantly decrease the serum IL-6 levels on the 9th dpi. Meanwhile, the PCV2 virus genome was detected sporadically. Collectively, dietary L-arginine supplementation had beneficial effects on the cytokines profile in the PCV2 infected mouse and maybe could delay the PCV2 replication and/or clear the PCV2 in mouse model.

How to cite this article
Gang Liu, Wenkai Ren, Dingding Su, Miaomiao Wu, Yinghui Li, Wei Luo, Xinglong Yu, Tiejun Li and Jun Fang, 2012. Dietary L-Arginine Supplementation Improves the Immune Responses in Mouse Model Infected Porcine Circovirus Types 2. Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances, 11: 2980-2985.

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