Immunometabolism in animal production: building efficiency from health

摘要: In the last decades, individual animal production increased dramatically as consequence of several improvements related to management, genetics, nutrition and health, among others. From a biological point of view, the increase in efficiency and production is a huge challenge that, under some circumstances, can negatively affect animal health and consequently animal well-being and production. Immunometabolism, defined as an interplay between immunological and metabolic processes (Mathis and Shoelsen, 2011), is an emerging field of research that may help animal scientists to better understand the link between production and health. In other words, immunometabolism studies how nutrients modulate the immune response.Improving health may affect positively the economic results in all livestock industries. Therefore, understanding the mechanism underlying the metabolism of the immune system is …