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Melatonin promotes the growth and development of lambs by increasing growth hormone and testosterone, targeting on apoptosis signaling pathway and intestinal microflora
Melatonin is an indole-like neuroendocrine hormone. A large number of studies have shown that melatonin can improve production performance of ewes, but it is not clear in lambs. In this study, the growth and development of the 2-month-old lambs implanted with melatonin were monitored for 60 days. Th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9439620/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36060949 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2022.966120 |
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author | Ma, Wenkui Wu, Hao Li, Guangdong Yan, Laiqing Wang, Likai Zhao, Mengmeng Guan, Shengyu Xu, Shang Guo, Xiaokai Liu, Fenze Ji, Pengyun Wusiman, Abulizi Liu, Guoshi |
author_facet | Ma, Wenkui Wu, Hao Li, Guangdong Yan, Laiqing Wang, Likai Zhao, Mengmeng Guan, Shengyu Xu, Shang Guo, Xiaokai Liu, Fenze Ji, Pengyun Wusiman, Abulizi Liu, Guoshi |
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description | Melatonin is an indole-like neuroendocrine hormone. A large number of studies have shown that melatonin can improve production performance of ewes, but it is not clear in lambs. In this study, the growth and development of the 2-month-old lambs implanted with melatonin were monitored for 60 days. The results showed that the growth rate of body weight and body skew length of lambs with melatonin treatment were significantly improved compared to the controls. The similar results were also observed in red blood cell count, hematocrit, red blood cell volume distribution width, the levels of growth hormone, testosterone, immunoglobulin A, immunoglobulin M and albumin. In addition, the cross sectional area of muscle fibers and adipose cells of lambs with melatonin implantation were also significantly increased compared to the controls (P<0.05). To further explore the potential mechanisms, the muscle and adipose tissue were selected for transcriptome sequencing. KEGG enrichment results showed that melatonin regulated the expression of genes related to apoptotic signaling pathway in muscle and adipocytes. Since the intestinal microbiota are involved in the nutritional balance and animal growth, the 16SrRNA sequencing related to the intestinal microbiota was also performed. The data indicated that the structural differences of fecal microflora mainly occur in the pathways of Cardiovascular disease, Excretory system and Signaling molecules and interaction. In brief, melatonin promotes the growth and development of lambs. The potential mechanisms may be that melatonin increased the growth hormone and testosterone mediated apoptosis signaling pathway and regulated intestinal microbial flora. Our results provide valuable information for melatonin to improve the production of sheep husbandry in the future. |
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spelling | pubmed-94396202022-09-03 Melatonin promotes the growth and development of lambs by increasing growth hormone and testosterone, targeting on apoptosis signaling pathway and intestinal microflora Ma, Wenkui Wu, Hao Li, Guangdong Yan, Laiqing Wang, Likai Zhao, Mengmeng Guan, Shengyu Xu, Shang Guo, Xiaokai Liu, Fenze Ji, Pengyun Wusiman, Abulizi Liu, Guoshi Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) Endocrinology Melatonin is an indole-like neuroendocrine hormone. A large number of studies have shown that melatonin can improve production performance of ewes, but it is not clear in lambs. In this study, the growth and development of the 2-month-old lambs implanted with melatonin were monitored for 60 days. The results showed that the growth rate of body weight and body skew length of lambs with melatonin treatment were significantly improved compared to the controls. The similar results were also observed in red blood cell count, hematocrit, red blood cell volume distribution width, the levels of growth hormone, testosterone, immunoglobulin A, immunoglobulin M and albumin. In addition, the cross sectional area of muscle fibers and adipose cells of lambs with melatonin implantation were also significantly increased compared to the controls (P<0.05). To further explore the potential mechanisms, the muscle and adipose tissue were selected for transcriptome sequencing. KEGG enrichment results showed that melatonin regulated the expression of genes related to apoptotic signaling pathway in muscle and adipocytes. Since the intestinal microbiota are involved in the nutritional balance and animal growth, the 16SrRNA sequencing related to the intestinal microbiota was also performed. The data indicated that the structural differences of fecal microflora mainly occur in the pathways of Cardiovascular disease, Excretory system and Signaling molecules and interaction. In brief, melatonin promotes the growth and development of lambs. The potential mechanisms may be that melatonin increased the growth hormone and testosterone mediated apoptosis signaling pathway and regulated intestinal microbial flora. Our results provide valuable information for melatonin to improve the production of sheep husbandry in the future. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9439620/ /pubmed/36060949 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2022.966120 Text en Copyright © 2022 Ma, Wu, Li, Yan, Wang, Zhao, Guan, Xu, Guo, Liu, Ji, Wusiman and Liu https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Endocrinology Ma, Wenkui Wu, Hao Li, Guangdong Yan, Laiqing Wang, Likai Zhao, Mengmeng Guan, Shengyu Xu, Shang Guo, Xiaokai Liu, Fenze Ji, Pengyun Wusiman, Abulizi Liu, Guoshi Melatonin promotes the growth and development of lambs by increasing growth hormone and testosterone, targeting on apoptosis signaling pathway and intestinal microflora |
title | Melatonin promotes the growth and development of lambs by increasing growth hormone and testosterone, targeting on apoptosis signaling pathway and intestinal microflora |
title_full | Melatonin promotes the growth and development of lambs by increasing growth hormone and testosterone, targeting on apoptosis signaling pathway and intestinal microflora |
title_fullStr | Melatonin promotes the growth and development of lambs by increasing growth hormone and testosterone, targeting on apoptosis signaling pathway and intestinal microflora |
title_full_unstemmed | Melatonin promotes the growth and development of lambs by increasing growth hormone and testosterone, targeting on apoptosis signaling pathway and intestinal microflora |
title_short | Melatonin promotes the growth and development of lambs by increasing growth hormone and testosterone, targeting on apoptosis signaling pathway and intestinal microflora |
title_sort | melatonin promotes the growth and development of lambs by increasing growth hormone and testosterone, targeting on apoptosis signaling pathway and intestinal microflora |
topic | Endocrinology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9439620/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36060949 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2022.966120 |
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