title: Prednisolone-induced predisposition to femoral head separation and the accompanying plasma protein changes in chickens.
abstract: Femoral head separation (FHS) is an idiopathic bone problem that causes lameness and production losses in commercial poultry. In a model of prednisolone-induced susceptibility to FHS, the changes in plasma proteins and peptides were analyzed to find possible biomarkers. Plasma samples from control and FHS-susceptible birds were depleted of their high abundance proteins by acetonitrile precipitation and were then subjected to cation exchange and reverse-phase (RP) fractionations. Analysis with matrix assisted laser desorption ionization-time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS) showed several differentially expressed peptides, two of which were isolated by RP-HPLC and identified as the fragments of apolipoprotein A-I. The acetonitrile fractionated plasma proteins were subjected to reduction/alkylation and trypsin digestion followed by liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry, which showed the absence of protocadherin 15, vascular endothelial growth factor-C, and certain transcription and ubiquitin-mediated proteolytic factors in FHS-prone birds. It appears that prednisolone-induced dyslipidemia, vascular, and tissue adhesion problems may be consequential to FHS. Validity of these biomarkers in our model and the natural disease must be verified in future using traditional approaches.
  Lameness because of femoral head separation (FHS) is a production and welfare problem in the poultry industry. Selection against FHS requires identification of the birds with subclinical disease with biomarkers from a source such as blood. Prednisolone can induce femoral head problems and predisposition to FHS. Using this experimental model, we analyzed the plasma peptides and proteins from normal and FHS-prone chickens by mass spectrometry to identify differentially expressed peptides and proteins. We found two peptides, both derived from apolipoprotein A-I, quantitatively elevated and two proteins, protocadherin 15 and VEGF-C, that were conspicuously absent in FHS-susceptible birds.
authors: Cell & Molecular Biology Program and Poultry Science Department, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA.
authors: B
authors: B
authors: Packialakshmi
authors: State wide Mass Spectrometry Facility, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Liyanage
authors: State wide Mass Spectrometry Facility, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA.
authors: Jo
authors: J
authors: Lay
authors: Cobb-Vantress Inc., Siloam Springs, AR, USA.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Okimoto
authors: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Poultry Production and Product Safety Research Unit, Poultry Science Center, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA.
authors: Nc
authors: N
authors: Rath
keywords: biomarker; chickens; femoral head separation; glucocorticoids; mass spectrometry; proteomics
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