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SUBMITTER: Chen GQ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2064956 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Gui-Qian GQ Hu Xiu-Fang XF Sugahara Kunio K Chen Ji-Shuang JS Song Xue-Mei XM Zheng Hui-Chao HC Jiang Yong-Qing YQ Huang Xin X Jiang Jun-Fang JF Zhou Wei-Dong WD
Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B 20071101 11
Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is one of the most important orexigenic agents in central regulation of feeding behavior, body weight and energy homeostasis in domestic chickens. To examine differences in the hypothalamic NPY between layer-type and meat-type of chickens, which are two divergent kinds of the domestic chickens in feeding behavior and body weight, we detected mRNA levels of NPY in hypothalamic infundibular nucleus (IN), paraventricular nucleus (PVN) and lateral hypothalamic area (LHA) of thes ...[more]