Abstract
To reach the genetic potential for growth, reproduction, lactation, and longevity in swine conditions are required that minimize stressors and inflammatory responses. It is important to integrate these production disciplines with research incorporating immunology. These disciplines are not independent, but act as a complex set of biological processes in synchrony with each other. It is important to understand the impact of stressors such as heat stress, water deprivation, and feed deprivation and of behavioral stressors such as metabolic modulators of immune barrier function. These topics were the focus of the Swine Symposium held in Indianapolis, Indiana, on July 10, 2008, at the joint centennial meeting of the American Society of Animal Science and the American Dairy Science Association. The specific goals of the symposium were to look at research beyond the realm of animal science, to define factors that create intestinal barrier dysfunction, to examine methods to assess barrier dysfunction or gut leakage, and to begin to explore potential pharmaceuticals and nutritional or environmental control interventions that may modify and reduce inflammatory responses caused by barrier dysfunction.
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