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Effects of dietary taurine amino acid on growth performance, mucosal and immune response, gene expression and antioxidant defence of asian seabass (Lates calcarifer)

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Abstract

Background

The enhancement of fish immune system and growth performance throughout the administration of bio-friendly agents such as diet supplements (taurine) is considered a promising alternative in farmed aquatic species.

Materials and methods

The present study was aimed to examine the effect of supplementation of dietary taurine (0, 5 g-TAU5 and 10 g-TAU10) in crystalline form (99% purity) in L. calcarifer juveniles, taking into account growth performance, general health indices and immune related-genes mRNA transcript abundance.

Results

The results confirmed that the supplementation of taurine enhances significantly all the growth parameters and a better flesh quality. While the blood biochemical and immunological factors didn’t present any significant differences, the expression of growth-related genes showed that IGF-1 was almost 3 times higher in fishes fed diet Tau 5 and Tau 10 compared to the control group.

Conclusions

Finally, it can be concluded that at the maximum dose tested (10 g) the treatment was effective for Asian seabass. In addition, Tau inclusion in an FM-based diet can increase the productivity parameters along with raising the antioxidant status.

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We are grateful to the director and staff of Hounam Abziparvaran Naji Company, Shiraz, Iran for providing the necessary facilities for the experiment.

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    Vahid Morshedi, Shirin Hamedi & Ahmad Ghasemi

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    Simona Rainis

  3. Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Nano and Bio Science and Technology, Persian Gulf University, Bushehr, Iran

    Dara Bagheri

  4. External Contributor, Mahshahr, Khozestan, Iran

    Reza Gamoori

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All persons listed as authors have read, contributed to preparing the manuscript as given below: SH and DB: fish maintenance, sample collection and some analyses; VM: experimental design, wrote the manuscript and statistical analyses; AG: gene expression analyses; SR: wrote the manuscript; RG: data interpretation.

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Morshedi, V., Rainis, S., Hamedi, S. et al. Effects of dietary taurine amino acid on growth performance, mucosal and immune response, gene expression and antioxidant defence of asian seabass (Lates calcarifer). Mol Biol Rep 49, 3503–3510 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-022-07187-6

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