Advances in application of dromedary camel tissue culture research

Abstract

The dromedary camels have a great economic value in Asia and Africa, where they are kept for production of milk, meat, wool and leather; they are also used for transportation in some areas. Recently, the camel racing practice in the Middle East has added to the cultural value of dromedary camels, which lead to increased interest in improving their genetic makeup, reproductivity and treatment efficiency. Tissue culture-based therapy in domestic animals is described as safe with considerable welfares to the animals. Tissue culture application is currently growing in the fields of vaccine production, virus cultivation and study, cancer research, gene therapy, Immunological studies and molecular biology. In veterinary medicine tissue culture technique has been used for the study of viral infection dynamics and vaccine development and for treatment of many affection including musculoskeletal system injuries, liver disease and mastitis. However, in dromedary camels such applications are relatively less. The current work reviewed the available research on tissue culture in dromedary camels. Our review shed light on the therapeutic, genetic, preventive and reproductive contribution of tissue culture application in dromedary camels.