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SUBMITTER: Kolodziejski PA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7922423 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kołodziejski Paweł A PA Pruszyńska-Oszmałek Ewa E Hejdysz Marcin M Sassek Maciej M Leciejewska Natalia N Ziarniak Kamil K Bień Jakub J Ślósarz Piotr P Kubiś Marta M Kaczmarek Sebastian S
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 20210217 2
Spexin (SPX) is a highly conservative peptide hormone containing 14 amino acids and was discovered in 2007 by bioinformatics methods. However, nothing is yet known about its role in the metabolism of birds, including broilers. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of short-term fasting (2, 4, and 8 h) on the concentration of SPX in blood serum and the expression levels of the genes encoding this peptide (<i>SPX1</i>) and its receptors, GALR2 and GALR3, in the tissues involved in ca ...[more]