Search Results - "Reid, Angus M.A."
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Dilution of broiler breeder diets with oat hulls prolongs feeding but does not affect central control of appetite
Published in Poultry science (01-12-2024)“…The parents of broiler (meat) chickens (ie, broiler breeders) are food-restricted until sexual maturity, ensuring good health and reproduction, but resulting…”
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Gastrointestinal distribution of chicken gastrin-cholecystokinin family transcript expression and response to short-term nutritive state
Published in General and comparative endocrinology (01-01-2018)“…•Anatomical distributions of chicken CCK and GAST mRNA expression are resolved.•Expressional responses of CCK and GAST to short-term nutritive state are…”
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The expression of the gastrin/cholecystokinin (GAST/CCK) family and their receptors (CCKAR/CCKBR) in the chicken changes in response to quantitative restriction and reveals a functional role of CCK in the crop
Published in General and comparative endocrinology (01-06-2022)“…•CCK expression was abundant in the hypothalamus and gastrin expression in the antrum.•CCKAR expression was abundant in the pancreas and crop.•CCKBR expression…”
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Gene expression of sex steroid metabolizing enzymes and receptors in the skeletal muscle of migrant and resident subspecies of white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys)
Published in Oecologia (01-07-2022)“…Circulating sex steroid concentrations vary dramatically across the year in seasonally breeding animals. The ability of circulating sex steroids to effect…”
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Tissue-specific expression of 11β-HSD and its effects on plasma corticosterone during the stress response
Published in Journal of experimental biology (02-01-2020)“…The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is under complex regulatory control at multiple levels. Enzymatic regulation plays an important role in both…”
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Acute restraint stress does not alter corticosteroid receptors or 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase gene expression at hypothalamic–pituitary-adrenal axis regulatory sites in captive male white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii)
Published in General and comparative endocrinology (01-03-2021)“…•Captive songbirds were exposed to a standardized restraint handling stress protocol.•Gene expression was quantified in the hippocampus, hypothalamus,…”
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Seasonal differences in hypothalamic thyroid‐stimulating hormone β, gonadotropin‐releasing hormone‐I and deiodinase expression between migrant and resident subspecies of white‐crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys)
Published in Journal of neuroendocrinology (01-09-2021)“…Across taxa, the seasonal transition between non‐breeding and breeding states is controlled by localised thyroid hormone signalling in the deep brain via…”
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Identification of the Core Promoter and Variants Regulating Chicken CCKAR Expression
Published in Genes (18-06-2022)“…Decreased expression of chicken cholecystokinin A receptor ( ) attenuates satiety, which contributes to increased food intake and growth for modern broilers…”
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Pancreatic PYY but not PPY expression is responsive to short-term nutritional state and the pancreas constitutes the major site of PYY mRNA expression in chickens
Published in General and comparative endocrinology (01-10-2017)“…•Chicken and quail PYY mRNA sequences evidenced.•Pancreas identified as the major site of PYY mRNA expression in chickens.•Peak of intestinal expression…”
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