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SUBMITTER: Liu L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5003990 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Lei L Xu Shaohua S Wang Xiaojuan X Jiao Hongchao H Lin Hai H
Asian-Australasian journal of animal sciences. 20160105 9
An experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of peripheral insulin treatment on appetite in chicks. Six-d-age chicks with ad libitum feeding or fasting for 3 h before injection received a subcutaneous injection of 0, 1, 3, 5, 10, or 20 IU of insulin or vehicle (saline). The results showed peripheral insulin treatment (1 to 20 IU) did not alter significantly the feed intake in chicks under either ad libitum feeding or fasting conditions within 4 h (p>0.05). Compared with the control, pla ...[more]