Leptin receptor signaling inhibits ovarian follicle development and egg laying in chicken hens

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Lei, Ming M ^a   Wu, Si Q ^b   Li, Xiao W ^b   Wang, Cong L ^b   Chen, Zhe ^a   Shi, Zhen D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Antibody; Chicken leptin receptor; Extra cellular domain; Gene expression; Hens; Ovarian follicule development

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PEPTIDE; CASPASE 3; CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; MC4R PROTEIN; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; OREXIN; PEPTIDE; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; STAT3 PROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY TITER; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EGG LAYING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEN; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNIZATION; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTICAL DENSITY; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; FEMALE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVIPOSITION; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84897563350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-12-25     Document Type: Article

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