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Koutsos EA Klasing KC 《Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Toxicology & pharmacology : CBP》2001,128(2):255-263
Experiments were conducted to determine the effect of injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS, from S. typhimurium) or muramyl dipeptide (MDP, N-acetylmuramyl-L-ala-isoglutamine) in Japanese quail. Doses of MDP between 0.3 and 10 mg/kg body wt. had no effect on body temperature. In contrast, doses of 1.0-22.5 mg LPS/kg body wt. caused significant increases in body temperature. None of the doses of LPS or MDP resulted in mortality. The febrile response to LPS was diminished following a second injection 48 h after the first, and was absent following a third injection. Plasma zinc, an indicator of the acute phase response, was significantly reduced by either LPS or MDP after the first injection (P<0.001), but not after the second or third injection. Splenic interleukin 1-beta (IL-1beta) mRNA expression was increased after the first and last injection of LPS (P<0.001), but only after the first injection of MDP (P<0.005). Hepatic IL-1beta mRNA expression was increased after the first, but not the third injection of LPS (P<0.001), while MDP had no effect. These data indicate that Japanese quail are less sensitive to MDP than LPS, and that quail demonstrate tolerance to LPS following repeated injections. 相似文献
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T A Aire 《Acta anatomica》1979,103(3):305-312
The epididymal region of the Japanese quail was studied histologically. The organ consists of the extratesticular portion of the rete testis, the ductuli efferentes proximales and distales, the ducti conjugentes and ductus epididymidis. Distinct tubuli recti link the seminiferous tubules with the rete testis. The non-ciliated cells of the ductuli efferentes proximales and distales show, between them, certain internal structural differences which were highlighted. In 40% of the birds, the ductus deferens showed dark-grey pigments, regarded as melanin. The epididymal region was generally similar in structure to that of the domestic fowl, turkey and duck. 相似文献
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The postnatal demasculinization of sexual behavior in the Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Three experiments were performed to analyze the time course of demasculinization in the Japanese quail and to test the activating and organizing effects of estradiol (E2) in adult sexually active birds. In Experiment 1, males and females were castrated at the age of 1 day or 1, 2, 4, and 6 weeks and treated as adults with testosterone (T). The age of castration had no effect on behavior and morphology in males. Plasma gonadotrophins (LH and FSH) were, however, higher in males castrated at or before than in those castrated after 2 weeks of age. This suggests that postnatal testicular secretions have organizing effects on the pituitary activity. Females which were castrated before 1 week of age were less sensitive to the activating effects of T than males, but were not fully demasculinized. The demasculinization of different reproductive characteristics such as male sexual behavior, cloacal gland size, and weight of the syringeal muscles is achieved in females at different times posthatching. In Experiment 2, castration of male and female quail at the ages of 4 days or 4 weeks confirmed that postnatal ovarian secretions contribute to the full behavioral and morphological demasculinization of females. It is easier to elicit mounting in T-treated females when they are tested in their home cage instead of a test arena. This difference was not observed in males. During Experiment 3, it was impossible to demasculinize sexually active adult males or females by treatment with Silastic implants of E2. E2 did not maintain sexual behavior in ovariectomized females showing male sexual behavior when treated with T but maintained the behavior in males. 相似文献
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G Lucotte M Kaminski 《Comptes rendus des séances de la Société de biologie et de ses filiales》1975,169(4):888-891
Polymorphism of plasma esterases in quail is very important. Phenotypic frequences of genetic variants of three esterases are examined and they show a high proportion of heterozygotes. The maintenance of this polymorphism is supposed to be due to the organophosphorus pesticides. 相似文献
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We compared the organization of dawn choruses in five groups of Japanese quail, Coturnix coturnix japonica, males (four groups of kin-related males and one group of unrelated males). We documented the structure of chorus groups: one male sang much more than the others during the dawn peak in four of the five groups, and this regardless of the number of males in the group. The dominant singers were then removed from two similar-sized groups, one of kin-related (K3) and the other of unrelated (NK) males. The quantity of song emitted by the remaining NK males was modified, but not that emitted by the K3 males. 相似文献
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An experiment was carried out to study the contribution of endogenous steroids during postnatal life to the sexual differentiation in Japanese quail. Male and female quail were gonadectomized at one week of age and when adult received testosterone silastic capsules. Seventy seven percent of these females showed male-type sexual behaviour and 46 percent even copulated. All males showed sexual behaviour including cloacal contact movements. Males and females grew cloacal glands of nearly identical sizes in response to the testosterone treatment. It is concluded that sexual differentiation in quail is at least in part a postnatal process and more research is needed to elucidate its exact mechanisms and time course. 相似文献
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Olympe Chazara Francis Minvielle Denis Roux Bertrand Bed’hom Katia Feve Jean-Luc Coville Boniface B. Kayang Sophie Lumineau Alain Vignal Jean-Marie Boutin Xavier Rognon 《Conservation Genetics》2010,11(3):1051-1062
Many cases of introgressive hybridization have been reported among birds, particularly following introduction to the natural environment of individuals belonging to non-native similar taxa. This appears to be the case for common quail (Coturnix coturnix) in France where wild populations artificially come into contact with domesticated Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) raised for meat and egg production but sometimes released for hunting purposes. In order to highlight the possible existence of gene flows between both taxa, a comparison of nuclear (25 microsatellite loci) and mitochondrial (sequencing and RFLP) DNA polymorphisms was performed on 375 common quails (from France, Spain and Morocco) and 140 Japanese quails (from France and Japan). Genetic diversity was assessed, and analyses (Factorial Correspondence Analysis, Bayesian admixture) of molecular polymorphisms revealed clear differentiation between the two taxa, making it possible to detect for hybrids among quails sampled in the wild. Eight birds expected to be common quail were found to be two pure Japanese quail, one probable backcross to C. japonica, three F1/F2 hybrids, and two probable backcrosses to Coturnix coturnix. These results show that Japanese quails were released and suggest that the two taxa hybridize in the wild. They confirm the urgent need for preventing the release of pure Japanese or hybrid quails to preserve the genetic integrity of C. coturnix. The tools developed for this study should be useful for accurate monitoring of wild quail populations within the framework of avifauna management programs. 相似文献
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Boughton RK Bridge ES Schoech SJ 《Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological genetics and physiology》2007,307(9):479-487
We investigated a postulated trade-off between reproduction and immune function by comparing the energetic costs of an immune response with phytohemagglutinin challenge (or injection) in castrated (low testosterone [T]) and intact (high T) Japanese Quail (Coturnix coturnix). Intact birds had higher resting metabolic rate (RMR) and significantly lower immune response than castrates. RMR of intact birds did not change in response to an immune challenge, suggesting that maintenance of reproductive tissues and associated high T is both immunosuppressive and energetically costly. Despite having a greater immune response than intact quail, castrates had a lower pre-challenge RMR than intact birds and paradoxically tended to decrease RMR during an immune challenge. This paradox may be because of pro-inflammatory cytokines that are released during immune responses. Cytokines promote energy conservation through malaise and soporific behaviors, possibly explaining the co-occurrence of a relatively strong immune response and a decrease in nocturnal RMR in castrates. The lower immune response in intact birds may not elicit as great a response of pro-inflammatory cytokines owing to an already elevated RMR from reproductive state, thus reducing any effect on RMR. The suppressed immune response and elevated RMR in intact birds may be because of T; however, we cannot separate the effects of T per se from the metabolic requirements of reproductive tissues. 相似文献
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Summary The cytology of the adenohypophysis of the male Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) has been studied under a variety of experimental conditions: (1) treatment with long daily photoperiods for variable lengths of time; (2) the change from a long to a short daily photoperiod which induces gonadal regression; (3) castration followed by exposure to either short or long daily photoperiods, and (4) treatment with thyroxine, thiourea and metapirone. In parallel with the Cytological investigations, information on the level of hypophysial gonadotropins has been obtained by bioassay.The cytological investigations permit the recognition of seven types of cells in the adenohypophysis and the identification of gonadotropic cells, thyrotropic cells, and corticotropic cells. The significance of the orangeophilic alpha (STH ?) cells, and the erythrosinophilic eta (prolactin ?) cells remains hypothetical. A seventh cell type kappa is hypercyanophilic and positive with lead hematoxylin; it has been identified in other species of birds and may be a melanophorotropic cell.In castrates, an increase in pituitary gonadotropin appears only with photostimulation. It appears that photostimulation increases thyrotropic activity, an effect that is enhanced by castration.This investigation was supported by Grant No. 5 ROI NB 06,187 from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness and by an allocation from the Graduate School Research Fund to Professor Farner.Part of the study was aided by an A. R. C. grant (AG. 24/36) to Dr. B. K. Follett.We are grateful to Doctor August Epple for his histologie analysis of some of the target glands.We wish to thank Miss Maryvonne Lefalchier, biologiste-adjointe du C. N. R. S. for excellent technical assistance in the cytological preparation of the pituitaries. 相似文献
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Z Fu H Kato N Kotera T Noguchi K Sugahara T Kubo 《Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry》2001,65(11):2504-2511
Hydroxyindole-O-methyltrasferase (HIOMT) plays an important role as the final enzyme in the synthesis of melatonin. In this study, the expression of the HIOMT gene in Japanese quail was investigated with respect to tissue distribution and the effects of light and vitamin A deficiency. HIOMT mRNA in the pineal gland and eye had a clear daily rhythm with peak values in daytime. The testis also contained a detectable amount of HIOMT mRNA, which did not display a rhythmic change over a 24-h period. When birds were rendered vitamin A deficient through feeding with a vitamin A-free diet, the daily rhythm of the HIOMT gene almost disappeared in both the pineal gland and eye due to increases in the nighttime values. Our previous observations and these results suggest that vitamin A and a photo-signal are required to maintain the rhythmic expression of the HIOMT gene as well as the arylalkylamine N-acetyltransferase gene. 相似文献
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Complete development of Eimeria tenella in Japanese quail embryos was observed. Sporozoites were inoculated into the allantoic cavity of 7-day-old Japanese quail embryos (Coturnix coturnix japonica), after which the infected embryos were incubated at 41 C. In the chorioallantoic membrane mature first generation schizonts, mature second generation schizonts, and gametes were detected at 48 hr postinoculation of sporozoites (PI), 84 hr PI, and 126 hr PI, respectively. Mature gametes and zygotes were found at 132 hr PI, and oocysts were detected at 138 hr PI. Mortality of embryos increased with increment of inoculum size of sporozoites. LD50 was 1.7 x 10(2) sporozoites. Oocyst production was also dependent on inoculum size. Oocysts harvested from embryos sporulated. The oocysts were inoculated into 13-day-old chickens, and oocysts, capable of sporulating normally, were recovered from ceca 7 days after inoculation. 相似文献
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Two experiments were performed to characterize the process of postnatal demasculinization in Japanese quail. In the first experiment, it was shown that estradiol (E2) can complete female demasculinization during the first 4 weeks of life. By contrast, E2 did not demasculinize sexual behavior and cloacal gland in neonatally castrated males. Neonatally gonadectomized females preferentially performed mount attempts when tested in their home cage by comparison to a test arena. In Experiment 2, E2 Silastic implants (40-mm) maintained full copulatory behavior in castrated males but not in females. This large dose of E2 did not demasculinize adult sexually active birds (males or females) even if treatment lasted for 1 month. It is concluded that E2 can demasculinize sexual behavior only in females and only if treatment is performed in very young birds. 相似文献
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K L Arora 《Laboratory animal science》1979,29(1):114-118
The suitability of five different sites (brachial, jugular, caudal tibial vein, external dorsal thoracic vein and the heart) were examined for blood sampling and intravenous injections in Japanese quail. In terms of safety, ease of collection, repeated collections or injections, the jugular vein was found to be the most suitable. 相似文献
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An embryonic lethal mutant was found in Japanese quail and named "stumpy limb (SL)". All SL embryos died at pre-hatching stages, showing brachycephaly, a thickened neck, short upper and lower beaks, and short and thick extremities, while their body length was similar to that of the normal embryos. Observations on the skeleton revealed a globular skull, unusual curvature of the Processus palatinus maxillaris of the upper beak, and shortening and thickening of the appendicular bones. Some embryos showed a bending of the humerus, femur and/or tibiotarsus. Abnormality was more conspicuous in the leg bones than in the wing bones. No conspicuous differences were observed in the vertebrae between the SL and normal embryos. A genetic analysis suggested that the mutation is controlled by an autosomal recessive gene, for which the gene symbol sl was proposed. 相似文献
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D X Hou Y Maeda S Okamoto T Hashiguchi 《Comparative biochemistry and physiology. B, Comparative biochemistry》1990,97(4):761-766
1. A chymotrypsinogen from pancreas of Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) was purified by acid extraction, salt fractionation and chromatographic separation on CM-cellulose and Sephadex G-100, and gave a single protein band on SDS-PAGE. 2. Quail chymotrypsinogen had a mol. wt of 26,100 calculated from amino acid composition data, an isoelectric point of 7.68, a Km of 3.1 mM and K0 of 40.7 sec-1 for tyrosine ester substrate. 3. The activated chymotrypsinogen of quail had a maximum activity at pH 7.0-8.0 and at 45 degrees C, and was stable at pH 4.0-6.0 below 55 degrees C. 4. Comparison of quail and bovine chymotrypsinogens indicates that the activities of the enzymes from quail and bovine are more constant than their physical characteristics. 相似文献
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A flock of Japanese quail with generalized glycogenosis has been established. Affected quail showed difficulty in raising their wings. Excessive accumulation of glycogen was seen in the liver, heart, skeletal muscle and brain, apparently due to decreased acid maltase activity. The condition appeared between 2 and 12 weeks of age and tissue deposition of glycogen increased with age. The growth of affected quail was normal and there were no deaths from the condition. Although genetic analysis has not yet been completed, an autosomal recessive inheritance is suspected. 相似文献
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Singh RP Sastry KV Pandey NK Shit N Agrawal R Singh KB Mohan J Saxena VK Moudgal RP 《Theriogenology》2011,75(3):555-562
Lactate dehydrogenase enzyme present in quail seminal plasma has been characterized. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and subsequently with LDH specific staining of seminal plasma revealed a single isozyme in quail semen. Studies on substrate inhibition, pH for optimum activity and inhibitor (urea) indicated the isozyme present in the quail semen has catalytic properties like LDH-1 viz. H-type. Furthermore, unlike other mammalian species, electrophoretic and kinetic investigations did not support the existence of semen specific LDH-X isozyme in quail semen. The effect of exogenous lactate and pyruvate on sperm metabolic activity was also studied. The addition of 1 mM lactate or pyruvate to quail semen increased sperm metabolic activity. Our results suggested that both pyruvate and lactate could be used by quail spermatozoa to maintain their basic functions. Since the H-type isozyme is important for conversion of lactate to pyruvate under anaerobic conditions it was postulated that exogenous lactate being converted into pyruvate via LDH present in semen may be used by sperm mitochondria to generate ATP. During conversion of lactate to pyruvate NADH is being generated that may be useful for maintaining sperm mitochondrial membrane potential. 相似文献