Reproductive hormones, hepatic deiodinase messenger ribonucleic acid, and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-immunoreactive cells in hypothalamus in the heat stress-induced or chemically induced hypothyroid laying hen

Poultry Science

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2001-2009

  Elnagar, S A ^a   Scheideler, S E ^b   Beck, M M ^c  

^a Alexandria University   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat stress; Hypothyroidism; Laying hen; Reproduction; Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide

Indexed keywords

AVES;

ESTROGEN; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; THYROID HORMONE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHICKEN; CYTOLOGY; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEAT; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; OVIPOSITION; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; REPRODUCTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; THYROID HORMONES; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 77958106070     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: 15253171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3382/ps.2010-00728     Document Type: Article

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