Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences

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Nutritional and Hormonal Induction of Fatty Liver Syndrome and Effects of Dietary Lipotropic Factors in Egg-type Male Chicks

  • Choi, Y.I. (College of Animal Bioscience and Technology, Konkuk University) ;
  • Ahn, H.J. (College of Animal Bioscience and Technology, Konkuk University) ;
  • Lee, B.K. (College of Animal Bioscience and Technology, Konkuk University) ;
  • Oh, S.T. (College of Animal Bioscience and Technology, Konkuk University) ;
  • An, B.K. (College of Animal Bioscience and Technology, Konkuk University) ;
  • Kang, C.W. (College of Animal Bioscience and Technology, Konkuk University)
  • Received : 2011.11.10
  • Accepted : 2012.05.02
  • Published : 2012.08.01
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Abstract

This experiment was conducted with male chicks to investigate the influence of hormones and nutrients on the development of fatty liver syndrome (FLS) as well as the effects of dietary lipotropic factors on hepatic fat accumulation and lipogenic enzyme gene expression. A total of two-hundred sixteen 4-wk-old Hy-Line male chicks were divided into six groups and fed an experimental diet (T1, low-energy diet with low levels of lipotropic factors; T2, high-energy diet with low levels of lipotropic factors; T3 and T5, low-energy diet with high levels of lipotropic factors; T4 and T6, high-energy diet with high levels of lipotropic factors) for six weeks. The chicks in T5 and T6 groups were treated with intramuscular injections of estradiol benzoate for three days prior to biopsy and clinical analysis of FLS. Chicks treated with estrogen had significantly greater liver weights than untreated chicks. The abdominal fat contents were increased in chicks consuming high-energy diets as compared to those consuming low-energy diets. Treatment with estrogen significantly increased the concentrations of serum cholesterol, triacylglycerol and phospholipid (p<0.05). The hepatic triacylglycerol levels were tenfold higher in the estrogen treated chicks than in the untreated chicks. There were no significant differences in malondialdehyde levels between the treatment groups. Estrogen treatment dramatically increased the levels of fatty acid synthetase, acetyl-CoA carboxylase and ApoB mRNA. The results indicated that treatment with exogenous estrogen in growing male chicks induced hepatic fat accumulation, which might be partially due to increased lipogenic enzyme gene expression.

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