New Insights Into Fundamental Physiology and Peri-natal Adaptation Of Domestic Fowl

Yahav And Tzschentke (Eds) (2006)

New Insights into Fundamental and Peri-natal Adaptation of Domestic Fowl is a compilation of 19 manuscripts from different topics presented in the symposium on Fundamental Physiology of the European Working Group of Physiology and Peri-natal Development in Poultry which was held in Berlin.

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ISBN 978-1-904761-44-0
Price £11.99
Publisher Nottingham University Press
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Contents:

The development of the cardiovascular system during embryogenesis

  • Early development of cholinergic heart rate control in embryos of broiler and White Leghorn chickens
  • Does sequence of exposure to altered ambient temperatures affect the endothermic heart rate response of newly hatched chicks?
  • Development of endothermic heart rate response in emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) embryos
  • Effect of reduced environmental oxygen content on the development of the myocardium in chick embryos
  • Video analysis of body movements and their relation to the heart rate fluctuations in chicken hatchlings
  • Expression of cPer2 and E4bp4 genes in the heart of chicken during embryonic and postembryonic life Muscle development during embryogenesis

Muscle development during embryogenesis

  • Enhancement of meat production by thermal manipulations during embryogenesis of broilers
  • The myogenic regulatory factors and the neurogenic factor nAChR are differentialy affected in fast and slow muscles by neuromuscular stimulation in developing avian embryos

Cellular aspects of early development of the thermoregulatory system

  • Characterization of neuronal hypothalamic plasticity in chicken: a comparative analysis
  • Hypothalamic C-fos expression of temperature experienced chick embryos after acute heat exposure

Different aspects of development during embryogenesis

  • Continuous, long-term observation of early development of chicken embryos in ovo
  • Effect of naked neck gene (Na) on embryonic mortality and embryonic metabolism in a heavy broiler breeder line
  • Compensatory renal hypertrophy in chick embryos with experimentally induced unilateral renal agenesis
  • The prenatal development of the claw - a model for the formation of function-related modified skin. A preliminary report
  • Investigation of the pre- and postnatal development of the foot pad skin of turkeys poults

Different issues in fundamental physiology

  • Increased testosterone content in egg differentially influences behaviour of Japanese quail during ontogeny
  • Permeation of volatile chemical compounds through an eggshell as determined by a newly developed high-sensitivity analytical system
  • Effects of artificial insemination as a handling stress on egg weight, yolk corticosterone content and embryonic mortality
  • Using un-traditional sources of antioxidants to cope with stress in broiler chickens