NEWS FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE February 2025 17 Engineering Feed Solutions www.orffa.com - Follow us on HEALTH YOU CAN SEE PROFITS YOU CAN MEASURE Our gut health solutions boost resilience, strengthen immunity, and maximize your animals’ productive potential — delivering healthier animals and higher profits. Learn more on how Orffa improves Gut Health & Immunity ORFFA GUT HEALTH & IMMUNITY Trained immunity, a modification of cells in the innate immune system, may represent a new way of protecting poultry from infectious diseases. In a recent review article, researchers from Japan highlight key findings in this field, focusing on how vaccines and dietary supplementation with β-glucans can enhance the innate immune system. Their efforts will pave the way towards more research in this unexplored area of avian immunology, leading to healthier and more productive chicken farms. In the ever-evolving world of poultry production, maintaining the health of chickens is vital not only for guaranteeing animal welfare but also for ensuring a safe and sustainable food supply. The immune system thus plays a crucial role in protecting chickens from a variety of diseases. The adaptive immune system, which includes highly specific responses driven by cellular memory, has long been the focus of vaccination strategies. However, recent research has highlighted the potential of trained immunity as a promising approach to disease prevention in various animals. Trained immunity can enhance the innate immune system—a less specific line of defense—through epigenetic and metabolic reprogramming of immune cells. However, the concept of trained immunity in poultry remains underexplored. Read more>> Researchers focus on trained immunity in chickens
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