Chicken FTO gene: Tissue-specific expression, brain distribution, breed difference and effect of fasting

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 163, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 246-252

  Wang, Yufeng ^a,c   Rao, Kaiqing ^a,d   Yuan, Lixia ^a   Everaert, Nadia ^c   Buyse, Johan ^c   Grossmann, Roland ^b   Zhao, Ruqian ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Functional Genomics and Bioregulation   (Germany)

^c LABORATORY OF GENE TECHNOLOGY   (Belgium)

^d SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY FOR NATIONALITIES   (China)

Author keywords

Brain distribution; Breed difference; Chicken FTO; Fasting; Tissue specific expression

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREED DIFFERENCE; BROILER; CEREBELLUM; CHICKEN; DIET RESTRICTION; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; FAT MASS AND OBESITY ASSOCIATED GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS HABENULARIS MEDIALIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRATUM CELLULARE EXTERNUM; THALAMUS;

GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84866406290     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.08.009     Document Type: Article

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