Aerobic training stimulates growth and promotes disease resistance in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
Aerobic training stimulates growth and promotes disease resistance in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
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DOI:
10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.06.013
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发表时间:
2011-10-01
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
Takle, Harald
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作者:
Castro, Vicente;Grisdale-Helland, Barbara;Takle, Harald
Improving fish robustness is of utmost relevance to reducing fish losses in farming. Although not previously examined, we hypothesized that aerobic training, as shown for human studies, could strengthen disease resistance in Atlantic salmon (Salina solar). Thus, we exercised salmon pre-smolts for 6 weeks at two different aerobic training regimes; a continuous intensity training (CT; 0.8 bl s(-1))and an interval training (IT; 0.8 bl s (1) 16 h and 1.0 bl s(-1) 8 h) and compared them with untrained controls (C; 0.05 bl s(-1)). The effects of endurance training on disease resistance were evaluated using an IPN virus challenge test, while the cardiac immune modulatory effects were characterized by qPCR and microarray gene expression analyses. In addition, swimming performance and growth parameters were investigated. Survival after the IPN challenge was higher for IT (74%) fish than for either CT (64%) or C (61%) fish. While both CT and IT groups showed lower cardiac transcription levels of TNF-alpha, IL-1 beta and IL-6 prior to the IPN challenge test, IT fish showed the strongest regulation of genes involved in immune responses and other processes known to affect disease resistance. Both CT and IT regimes resulted in better growth compared with control fish, with CT fish developing a better swimming efficiency during training. Overall, interval aerobic training improved growth and increased robustness of Atlantic salmon, manifested by better disease resistance, which we found was associated with a modulation of relevant gene classes on the cardiac transcriptome. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.