Effect of estradiol on calcium and calcium binding in serum of thick and then-shell lines of chickens.
Estradiol (10 mg/bird) was injected intramuscularly into hens of a thick-shell line and a thin-shell line as well as into roosters of both lines on day 0. Serum levels of calcium (Ca), phosphorus (P), and Ca binding involving the proteins vitellogenin (a phosphoprotein) and albumin were measured on day 0 and day 6 or 7. Serum levels of all measured Ca and P parameters and vitellogenin binding of both sexes were significantly greater, while levels of albumin binding were significantly less on day 6 or 7 than on day 0. Serum levels of non-diffusible Ca in hens and vitellogenin binding in both sexes were significantly greater in the thick-shell than in the thin-shell line. There were no significant differences between lines for total serum P of either sex. A study of the hens only revealed that the change in nondiffusible Ca and vitellogenin binding from day 0 to day 6 or 7 was significantly different between lines. The correlations between vitellogenin binding and total P, expressed as either change or percent change, were greater than .8.
D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000097:blood / Q000378:metabolism*; D002645:Chickens / Q000378:metabolism*; D004958:Estradiol / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010758:Phosphorus / Q000097:blood; D014819:Vitellogenins / Q000378:metabolism
D014819:Vitellogenins; D010758:Phosphorus; D004958:Estradiol; D002118:Calcium