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alga Porphyridium cru<strong>en</strong>tum. For this reason, this alga has be<strong>en</strong> selected in this work to<br />

evaluate its pot<strong>en</strong>tial immunostimu<strong>la</strong>nt effect on farmed fish. However, most studies<br />

performed to examine the immunostimu<strong>la</strong>nt ability of algae have be<strong>en</strong> carried out by in<br />

vitro incubation of immune cells with algal extracts, and information on the in vivo<br />

effects of whole algal cells is still scarce [27]. In addition, algal extracts are inocu<strong>la</strong>ted<br />

intraperitoneally in theses studies. This route of administration, although very effective,<br />

is also very <strong>la</strong>borious, time-consuming, stressful for fish and difficult to apply to<br />

fingerlings [28, 29]. Oral administration of immunostimu<strong>la</strong>nts is a non-stressful method<br />

with minimum economic cost and effort and <strong>en</strong>ables mass administration regardless of<br />

the fish size [7], but studies addressing this route of administration are scarce and<br />

usually inclu<strong>de</strong> only algal extracts instead of whole cells [22].<br />

In this study the pot<strong>en</strong>tial immunostimu<strong>la</strong>nt effect of aqueous and ethanolic<br />

extracts obtained from P. cru<strong>en</strong>tum on the respiratory burst activity of S<strong>en</strong>egalese sole<br />

phagocytes has be<strong>en</strong> <strong>de</strong>termined. In addition, the pot<strong>en</strong>tial stimu<strong>la</strong>tion of the respiratory<br />

burst activity of phagocytes iso<strong>la</strong>ted from fish fed with a commercial diet supplem<strong>en</strong>ted<br />

with P. cru<strong>en</strong>tum cells has be<strong>en</strong> studied. In this case, pot<strong>en</strong>tial synergetic or antagonic<br />

effects resulting from the alga diet and vaccination against P. damse<strong>la</strong>e subsp. piscicida<br />

have be<strong>en</strong> evaluated.<br />

Materials and Methods<br />

2.1. Microorganisms<br />

The virul<strong>en</strong>t strain Lg h41/01 of Photobacterium damse<strong>la</strong>e subsp. piscicida<br />

iso<strong>la</strong>ted from diseased S<strong>en</strong>egalese sole [16] was selected to test the respiratory burst<br />

activity of sole phagocytes. The bacterial strain was cultured on tryptic soy agar (Oxoid)<br />

supplem<strong>en</strong>ted with 1.5% NaCl (TSAs) for 24 h at 22 ºC. Bacterial susp<strong>en</strong>sions for<br />

respiratory burst assays were obtained from tubes containing tryptic soy broth (Oxoid)<br />

ad<strong>de</strong>d with 1.5% NaCl (TSBs) inocu<strong>la</strong>ted with one colony from a TSAs p<strong>la</strong>te and<br />

incubated at 22 ºC for 24 h. Th<strong>en</strong>, the cultures were c<strong>en</strong>trifuged at 6000 xg for 15 min at<br />

4 ºC, and pellets were resusp<strong>en</strong><strong>de</strong>d in L-15 medium at an optical <strong>de</strong>nsity (600 nm) equal<br />

to 1(10 8 cells ml -1 ).<br />

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