ArticleFrontiers in veterinary science2022
Animal Welfare and Resistance to Disease: Interaction of Affective States and the Immune System.
Article in Frontiers in veterinary science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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- Regular outdoor access decreases stress with positive effects on the health of growing pigs raised on a conventional farm.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- The Effect of Environment and Husbandry Practices on Sheep Welfare.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- Main Husbandry Practices and Health Conditions That Affect Welfare in Calves: A Narrative Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- Animal welfare and farming systems synergistically influence beef cattle health: Evidence from Northern Thailand.Veterinary world · 2025Article
- Neopterin as a Tool for Primate Ecoimmunology: Current Knowledge, Practical Application, and New Directions From Captivity to the Wild.American journal of primatology · 2025Review
- Exploring the effect of play on heart rate variability as a measure of positive emotional states in pigs.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
- Network and systems biology approaches help investigate gene regulatory interactions between Salmonella disease and host in chickens: Model-based in silico evidence combined with gene expression assays.Veterinary medicine and science · 2024Article
- Veterinary systems biology for bridging the phenotype-genotype gap via computational modeling for disease epidemiology and animal welfare.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2024Review
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- Integrating animal welfare into the WHO pandemic treaty: a thematic analysis of civil society perspectives and comparison with treaty drafting.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
- Rearing pigs with play opportunities: the effects on disease resilience in pigs experimentally inoculated with PRRSV.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
- Will the white blood cells tell? A potential novel tool to assess broiler chicken welfare.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
- Zoo Animal Welfare Assessment: Where Do We Stand?Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
- Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor, Kynurenine Pathway, and Lipid-Profiling Alterations as Potential Animal Welfare Indicators in Dairy Cattle.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- The increasing relevance of immunobiology within a connected animal science curriculum.Translational animal science · 2023Article
- Age-dependent relationships among diet, body condition, and Echinococcus multilocularis infection in urban coyotes.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
Good management and improved standards of animal welfare are discussed as important ways of reducing the risk of infection in farm animals without medication. Increasing evidence from both humans and animals suggests that environments that promote wellbeing over stress and positive over negative emotions can reduce susceptibility to disease and/or lead to milder symptoms. We point out, however, that the relationship between welfare, immunity, and disease is highly complex and we caution against claiming more than the current evidence shows. The accumulating but sometimes equivocal evidence of close links between the brain, the gut microbiome, immunity, and welfare are discussed in the context of the known links between mental and physical health in humans. This evidence not only provides empirical support for the importance of good welfare as preventative medicine in animals but also indicates a variety of mechanisms by which good welfare can directly influence disease resistance. Finally, we outline what still needs to be done to explore the potential preventative effects of good welfare.
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