ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2013, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (12): 1913-1918.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2013.12.008

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Effect of Low Dietary Nutrition on Hypothalamic Expression of KiSS-1/GPR54 System and Relative Hormones Secretion in Ewes

WANG Jun1, 2,SUN Lei1,ZHOU Hai-zhu2,ZHANG Tao3,XU Jing2,LOU Yu-jie2*   

  1. (1.College of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Liaoning Medical University, Jinzhou 121001, China; 2.College of Animal Science and Technology, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China; 3.Snowdragon Beef Co., Ltd, Dalian 116031, China)
  • Received:2013-07-08 Online:2013-12-23 Published:2013-12-23

Abstract:

The present study was conducted to confirm the role of KiSS-1/GPR54 system in nutrition regulation of puberty onset by analyzing effect of low dietary nutrition on hypothalamic expression of KiSS-1/GPR54 system and relative hormones secretion in ewes.Twelve female Small-tailed Han sheep (native breed), around 16 kg body weigh and three months old, were randomly divided into control and feed restriction group (n=6). Control group was fed with normal nutrition diet and the feed restriction group fed with low nutrition diet (60% of food intake of control group). Thirty days latter, ewes were killed, and hypothalamus and blood were collected for determining hypothalamic expression of KiSS-1/GPR54 system and secretion of LH, insulin and Leptin in ewes. The results showed that low nutrition could significantly decrease expression of KiSS-1 gene and protein in arcuate nucleus of hypothalamus of ewesP0.01, however, there was no significant difference on the expression of GPR54 between two groupsP0.05.Low nutrition also led to decreasing of LH, insulinP0.05 and LeptinP0.01in serum of ewes. These results indicated that hypothalamic KiSS-1/GPR54 system may involve in low nutrition regulation of puberty onset by decreasing the expression of KiSS-1 in ewes.

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