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JournalISSN: 1050-4648

Fish & Shellfish Immunology 

Elsevier BV
About: Fish & Shellfish Immunology is an academic journal published by Elsevier BV. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Biology & Medicine. It has an ISSN identifier of 1050-4648. Over the lifetime, 9125 publications have been published receiving 279153 citations. The journal is also known as: Pisces & fishes.


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TL;DR: The innate immune system is the only defence weapon of invertebrates and a fundamental defence mechanism of fish and plays an instructive role in the acquired immune response and homeostasis and is therefore equally important in higher vertebrates.

1,801 citations

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S.K. Nayak1
TL;DR: The review is aiming to highlight the immunomodulatory activity of probiotics and also to evaluate the factors that regulate for the optimum induction of immune responses in fish.

994 citations

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TL;DR: The current understanding of the role of fish complement in phagocytosis, respiratory burst, chemotaxis and cell lysis is reviewed and a comprehensive compilation on complement host-pathogen interactions is provided.

624 citations

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TL;DR: The probiotic activity of two bacteria was evaluated by its effect on the immune response of Nile tilapia, beside its protective effect against challenge infections, and their in-vitro inhibitory activity was evaluated.

592 citations

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TL;DR: Understanding the functions of complement in fish and the roles the individual proteins, including the various isoforms, play in host defence is important not only for understanding the evolution of this system but also for the development of new strategies in fish health management.

567 citations

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No. of papers from the Journal in previous years
YearPapers
2023371
2022836
2021342
2020765
20191,028
2018658