Fifty years of sheep red blood cells to monitor humoral immunity in poultry: a scientometric evaluation
Sheep red blood cells (SRBC) are commonly employed by scientists to address humoral immune responses in poultry. While SRBC are closely related to the study of humoral immunity in poultry, the initial purpose of much research did not focus on the mechanisms involved. Here, we provide a qualitative a...
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| description | Sheep red blood cells (SRBC) are commonly employed by scientists to address humoral immune responses in poultry. While SRBC are closely related to the study of humoral immunity in poultry, the initial purpose of much research did not focus on the mechanisms involved. Here, we provide a qualitative approach and utilize scientometric techniques, including trend analyses, scientific collaborations and mapping, and word co-occurrence evaluations, to summarize the role of SRBC in the poultry studies. First, a search strategy on Web of Science (WoS) was conducted to find publications that included SRBC in the poultry studies. Publications were partitioned into 4 categories: nutrition, genetics, microbiology, and physiology. For scientometric evaluation, scientific maps and networks were produced to clarify the occurrence of SRBC in the poultry studies. Data used included 702 publications over a period of 50 y (1968-2018) that were retrieved from the WoS database. About 95% of the publications were published in English language. Indigenous, experimental, and commercial chickens, quail, and medicinal plants field/topics were the main subjects of publications. In recent years, authors have used SRBC to study humoral immune response as a secondary aim of their research, especially when poultry production/performance was studied. This was especially the case in recent decades for studies in poultry nutrition. Analysis of keywords co-occurrence showed that the phrase SRBC mostly occurred with chickens, immune response, and especially with broilers. Moreover, the “medicinal plants” are becoming important especially for research on broilers and the reduced use of antibiotics in feed. Consequently, in addition to studying the medicinal plants, finding antibiotic replacements, and/or growth performance in the birds, humoral immunity is suggested to be investigated using SRBC. Moreover, interdisciplinary studies with the cooperation of scientists from agriculture, veterinary, immunology, biochemistry and molecular biology, and toxicology will develop in the future. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b88bf51e00af41b59ea4a44c32744ef32022-12-22T00:01:27ZengElsevierPoultry Science0032-57912020-10-01991047584768Fifty years of sheep red blood cells to monitor humoral immunity in poultry: a scientometric evaluationAli Maghsoudi0Esmaeil Vaziri1Mansoureh Feizabadi2Mehran Mehri3Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran; Department of Bioinformatics, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran; Center of Agricultural Biotechnology, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran; Corresponding author:Department of Information Science and Knowledge Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Zabol, Zabol, IranDepartment of Information Science and Knowledge Studies, School of Medicine, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, IranDepartment of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zabol, Zabol, IranSheep red blood cells (SRBC) are commonly employed by scientists to address humoral immune responses in poultry. While SRBC are closely related to the study of humoral immunity in poultry, the initial purpose of much research did not focus on the mechanisms involved. Here, we provide a qualitative approach and utilize scientometric techniques, including trend analyses, scientific collaborations and mapping, and word co-occurrence evaluations, to summarize the role of SRBC in the poultry studies. First, a search strategy on Web of Science (WoS) was conducted to find publications that included SRBC in the poultry studies. Publications were partitioned into 4 categories: nutrition, genetics, microbiology, and physiology. For scientometric evaluation, scientific maps and networks were produced to clarify the occurrence of SRBC in the poultry studies. Data used included 702 publications over a period of 50 y (1968-2018) that were retrieved from the WoS database. About 95% of the publications were published in English language. Indigenous, experimental, and commercial chickens, quail, and medicinal plants field/topics were the main subjects of publications. In recent years, authors have used SRBC to study humoral immune response as a secondary aim of their research, especially when poultry production/performance was studied. This was especially the case in recent decades for studies in poultry nutrition. Analysis of keywords co-occurrence showed that the phrase SRBC mostly occurred with chickens, immune response, and especially with broilers. Moreover, the “medicinal plants” are becoming important especially for research on broilers and the reduced use of antibiotics in feed. Consequently, in addition to studying the medicinal plants, finding antibiotic replacements, and/or growth performance in the birds, humoral immunity is suggested to be investigated using SRBC. Moreover, interdisciplinary studies with the cooperation of scientists from agriculture, veterinary, immunology, biochemistry and molecular biology, and toxicology will develop in the future.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579120304417chickenhumoral immunityimmune responsesSRBCbroilersmedicinal plants |
| spellingShingle | Ali Maghsoudi Esmaeil Vaziri Mansoureh Feizabadi Mehran Mehri Fifty years of sheep red blood cells to monitor humoral immunity in poultry: a scientometric evaluation Poultry Science chicken humoral immunity immune responses SRBC broilers medicinal plants |
| title | Fifty years of sheep red blood cells to monitor humoral immunity in poultry: a scientometric evaluation |
| title_full | Fifty years of sheep red blood cells to monitor humoral immunity in poultry: a scientometric evaluation |
| title_fullStr | Fifty years of sheep red blood cells to monitor humoral immunity in poultry: a scientometric evaluation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fifty years of sheep red blood cells to monitor humoral immunity in poultry: a scientometric evaluation |
| title_short | Fifty years of sheep red blood cells to monitor humoral immunity in poultry: a scientometric evaluation |
| title_sort | fifty years of sheep red blood cells to monitor humoral immunity in poultry a scientometric evaluation |
| topic | chicken humoral immunity immune responses SRBC broilers medicinal plants |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579120304417 |
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