In vaccinated chickens, thymulin-ZnCl2 produced the highest IBV humoral immunopotentiation among combinations, with mean titer increasing 199% from baseline.
In plain wordsIn vaccinated chickens, thymulin-ZnCl2 produced the highest IBV antibody response among combinations, with antibody levels increasing 199% from baseline.
- Outcome
- IncreaseIBV antibody titer
- Study
chickenn: not reported in source
vaccinated white leghorn-chicken layers- Comparator
- initial titer at 29 weeks and other tested combinations
- Outcome group
- Immune response · Immune and inflammation
Measurements
- Mean titer increase
- 199%
- IBV at 33 versus 29 weeks
Source sentences
Among all combinations, the thymulin-ZnCl2 resulted in birds with the highest humoral immunopotentiation to IBV, IBDV, and NDV antigens with respective percent increase in the mean titer at 33 weeks of age, compared with initial titer at 29 weeks of age, equivalent to 199%, 671.7%, and 86.4%.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
Four out of the five vaccinated groups were immunopotentiated by various combinations of zinc and thymic hormones administered intraperitoneally in a volume of 0.1 ml per bird at an interval of three days for a period of three weeks, starting at 29 weeks of age.
In this study, Thymulin (serum thymic factor) was a lab tool or a carrier, part of a mix, or the subject of a lab method. This result is not evidence about taking Thymulin (serum thymic factor).