Heat stress alters hematological parameters in barrows and gilts.
Journal of animal science(2024)
摘要
The purpose of this investigation was to establish the role biological sex plays on circulating factors following heat stress (HS). Barrows and gilts (36.8 ± 3.7 kg body weight) were kept in either thermoneutral (TN; 20.8 ± 1.6 °C; 62.0 ± 4.7 % relative humidity; n = 8/sex) conditions or exposed to HS (39.4 ± 0.6 °C; 33.7 ± 6.3 % relative humidity) for either 1 (HS1; n = 8/sex) or 7 (HS7; n = 8/sex) days. Circulating glucose decreased as a main effect of environment (P=0.03). Circulating non-esterified fatty acid (NEFA) had an environment × sex interaction (P<0.01) as HS1 barrows had increased NEFA compared to HS1 gilts (P=0.01) and NEFA from HS7 gilts increased compared to HS1 gilts (P=0.02) and HS7 barrows (P=0.04). Cortisol, insulin, glucagon, T3 and T4 were reduced as a main effect of environment (P≤0.01). Creatinine was increased in HS1 and HS7 animals compared to TN (P≤0.01), indicative of decreased glomerular filtration rate. White blood cell populations exhibited differential patterns based on sex and time. Neutrophils and lymphocytes had an environment × sex interaction (P≤0.05) as circulating neutrophils were increased in HS1 barrows compared to TN and HS7 barrows, and HS1 gilts (P≤0.01) and HS7 barrows had less neutrophils compared to TN barrows (P=0.01), whereas they remained similar in gilts. In contrast, barrow lymphocyte number was similar between groups, but in HS7 gilts they were decreased compared to TN and HS1 gilts (P≤0.04). In total, these data demonstrate that HS alters a host of circulating factors and that biological sex mediates, at least in part, the physiological response to HS.
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