Immunomodulators in Aquaculture and Fish Health

Coordinators: Elumalai Preetham, Soltani Mehdi, Lakshmi Sreeja

Language: English
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This reference book provides updated information about different immunomodulators for managing fish health and sustainable aquaculture. Immunomodulators are dietary additives that enhance innate defense mechanisms and increase resistance against specific pathogens and diseases. The book covers the different types of immunostimulants, their modes of action, and their efficacies. It also reviews safety concerns, ethical regulations, limitations, and outreach to farmers. It discusses the application of herbal immunomodulators, antioxidants, pre- and pro-biotics, in disease management.

Features:

  • Reviews the pressing topic of reduction of antibiotic use in aquaculture
  • Discusses herbal immunomodulators, nutrients, antioxidants and pre- and pro-biotics
  • Covers the topic of progressive immunomodulation using nanotechnology
  • Discusses fish health management in the ever-growing aquaculture industry
  • Includes natural and synthetic immunomodulators

The book is meant for researchers and industry experts in aquaculture, fisheries science, and veterinary medicine.

Section I: Immunomodulators: An overview. 1. Immunomodulators: An Introduction. 2. Natural and synthetic immunomodulators: inferences for stress responses in aquaculture fish. 3. Immunomodulators: Mode of action. 4. Immunomodulator and stress oxidative. Section II: Immunomodulators and sustainable aquaculture development. 5. Immunomodulators to Prevent Diseases and Minimize Antimicrobial Use. 6. Immunomodulation in aquaculture health management: opportunities and obstacles. 7. Disease management and prophylaxis by immunostimulants. 8. Application of Immunostimulants for aquaculture health management. Section III: Immunomodulators in Aquaculture health management. 9. Herbal Immunomodulators for aquaculture. 10. Prebiotics and Probiotics as Effective Immunomodulators in Aquaculture. 11. Immunomodulation through nutritional factors, antioxidants and hormones. 12. Cytokines and fish health. 13. Progressive immunomodulation through Nanotechnology. Section IV: Current status of Immunomodulators’ in Aquaculture. 14. Efficacy and limitations of immunomodulators. 15. Current status/recent advancements with immunostimulants in aquaculture
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Preetham Elumalai, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Marine Biology, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, Kerala, India. He earned a Master’s degree from the University of Madras and a PhD in biochemistry and molecular immunology from the Institute for Immunology, University of Regensburg, Germany. His research practice includes bioassay-guided identification of novel marine compounds, unveiling fish lectins in innate immune defense, aquatic vaccine development, evaluation of cost-effective feed additives and nutrigenomics, and effects of environmental pollutants on marine ecosystems. He has been a partner in numerous EU-, Indian-,and UK-funded projects (e.g., IVVN, BactiVac). He has written more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and has 2 patents in his name apart from editing 5 books (Springer, CRC Press) and has presented his work at more than 60 national and international conferences. He has been awarded the prestigious INSA fellowship (2018); MASTS, Fellowship (2019); IVVN award, UK (2020); FRSB award (2021); and BactiVac award, UK (2022).

Mehdi Soltani, PhD, is a distinguished professor at university of Tehran and an adjunct professor at Murdoch University, Australia. He earned a DVM from university of Tehran and PhD in aquatic animal health from university of Tasmania, Australia. Professor Soltani has an international reputation for research on aquatic animal health, with 290 published scientific papers, collaborations with researchers throughout the world and editorship of scientific journals in fisheries and veterinary science. He chaired government advisory committees in fisheries and aquaculture and have also worked closely with the aquaculture industry. He developed and patented a number of fish vaccines, which are registered throughout the Middle East. He also taught numerous undergraduate courses and supervised many higher degree students. His research interests include vaccine d