Determination of testicular estrogen receptor alpha expression of male chickens (Gallus domesticus) with age

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Nirmali, WK Ramesha
Warnakula, Lakshan
Cooray, Ruwini
Hapuarachchi, Nimanie Sachithra
Magamage, Manjula PS
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Background and Aim: Estrogen activity, a central component of reproductive growth, is regulated by the receptor proteins, estrogen receptor alpha (ERα), and ER beta (ERβ) in chickens as in many other species. ERα expresses predominantly in gonads. Although the expression of ERα in embryonic gonads has been studied in detail, the expression of ERα in post-hatching male gonads has not been studied adequately. Therefore, the current research was conducted to determine the post-hatching changes in the expression of ERα in the left gonads of male chickens with age.

Materials and Methods: Shaver Brown male chickens were raised and cared for according to the management guide and sacrificed at the intervals of 1, 4, and 8 weeks of age. The total RNA was extracted from the left gonads using the Trizol method and reverse transcribed using a pair of gene-specific primers. Following polymerase chain reaction amplification, the expression of ERα was quantified relative to the expression of the reference gene GAPDH.

Results: The results showed that ERα expression significantly increases with age at p=0.0032. However, the increment of ERα expression from week 1 to week 4 was 2.04-fold and from week 4 to week 8 was 1.39-fold, with the later age reflecting a diminishing pattern in the increment.

Conclusion: These results differentiate the post-hatching ERα expression of the left gonads of male chickens increase with age but with a diminishing gradient that may support their reproductive functions in later stages of life.

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Veterinary World

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12

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7

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© The Author(s), 2019. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.

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Veterinary pathology

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Nirmali, WKR; Warnakula, L; Cooray, R; Hapuarachchi, NS; Magamage, MPS, Determination of testicular estrogen receptor alpha expression of male chickens (Gallus domesticus) with age, Veterinary World, 2019, 12 (7), pp. 994-997

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