Wooden breast is one of several myopathies of fast-growing commercial broilers that has
emerged as a consequence of intensive selection practices in the poultry breeding industry …

Birds naturally have blood glucose concentrations that are nearly double levels measured
for mammals of similar body size and studies have shown that birds are resistant to insulin …

Background Domestic broiler chickens rapidly accumulate adipose tissue due to intensive
genetic selection for rapid growth and are naturally hyperglycemic and insulin resistant …

The chicken is an important agricultural animal and model for developmental biology,
immunology and virology. Excess fat accumulation continues to be a serious problem for the …

Identification of insulin-responsive glucose transporter proteins, GLUT4 and GLUT8, was
attempted in chickens that characteristically are hyperglycemic and insulin resistant …

Background Natural and artificial selection leads to changes in certain regions of the
genome resulting in selection signatures that can reveal genes associated with the selected …

1. Glucose transporter (GLUT) proteins, one of which is the major insulin-responsive
transporter GLUT4, play a crucial role in cellular glucose uptake and glucose homeostasis in …

Scope The effects and roles of branched‐chain amino acids (BCAAs) in hepatic fat
metabolism are still unknown. Methods and results Here, we used broiler chickens, in which …

Visfatin, an adipokine hormone produced primarily by visceral adipose tissue in mammals,
has been implicated in the immune system, cellular aging, and glucose metabolism …

Orexin A and B, orexigenic peptides produced primarily by the lateral hypothalamus that
signal through two G protein-coupled receptors, orexin receptors 1/2, have been implicated …