Serum pattern of thyroxine (T4), 3,3',5-triiodothyronine (T3) and 3,3',5'-triiodothyronine (rT3) in fed and fasted cocks following TRH stimulation.
Food deprivation for 27 and 75h in cocks decreased serum levels of T3 maximally by 61.1% and increased the level of rT3 by 51.4% and that of T4 by 22.4%. Injection of a single dose of TRH (10 micrograms/kg b.w.) increased serum levels of all 3 iodothyronines in both fed and food-deprived animals. In fasted, TRH-treated birds the peak of serum rT3 was 80.5 and 73.3% above control levels in 27- and 75-hr food-deprived cocks, respectively (fed birds: 14.6 and 9.7%); the relevant data for T3 were: 78.3 and 40.4% (fed birds: 95.7 and 127.5%); for T4: 30.0 and 27.0% (fed birds: 9.2 and 6.1%). The greater relative increment of serum rT3 than T3 in food-deprived and TRH-treated cocks was supported by a fall of the serum T3/rT3 ratio to 78.7 and 27.9% in fed cocks and 27- and 75-hr fasted animals, respectively. We conclude, that food deprivation modifies the response of the hypophysis-thyroid axis to exogenous TRH in the sense that during fasting the production of rT3 is enhanced relative to T3.
Abdel-Fattah
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Department of Animal Physiology, Academy of Agriculture, Kraków, Poland.
Bobek
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Sechman
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D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens / Q000097:blood*; D004435:Eating / Q000502:physiology; D005508:Food Deprivation / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000502:physiology; D013973:Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone / Q000494:pharmacology; D013974:Thyroxine / Q000097:blood*; D014284:Triiodothyronine / Q000097:blood*; D014285:Triiodothyronine, Reverse / Q000097:blood*
D014284:Triiodothyronine; D014285:Triiodothyronine, Reverse; D013973:Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone; D013974:Thyroxine