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| Author(s): |
Lara do Amaral Silva
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Jaboticabal. 2016-03-17. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias. Jaboticabal |
| Defense date: | 2016-02-15 |
| Advisor: | Kênia Cardoso Bícego |
| Abstract | |
Oxygen is essential for cell development and function in aerobic organisms. Exposure of embryos to hypoxia can change the genetically estabilished developmental trajectory and generate morphological and physiological changes of several organs and systems. In precocious birds, hypoxia during incubation is known to change size of organs, metabolic rate and ventilation in hatchlings. In these animals, embryonic development of the parabronchial structures, involved in gas exchange and conduction, occurs mainly during the second half of incubation time. Based on the above facts, we can hypothesize that hypoxia during this phase of development can induce a remodeling of such structures, favoring gas exchange, later in post-hatch life. To test this hypothesis, embryos were exposed to normoxia for the entire incubation or to 15% O2 (from day 12 to 18 of incubation) and their parabronchial structures, including air capillaries, blood capillaries, infundibula, atria, parabronchial lumen, blood vessels larger than capillaries and interparabronchial tissue, were analyzed by stereological method in 1 and 10-day old chicks. Hypoxia increased the relative volume of structures directly involved in gas exchange such as air and blood capillaries, while did not change total lung volume and relative volumes of infundibula, blood vessels larger than capillaries and interparabronchial tissue of 1 and 10 days-old chicks. The lower concentration of oxygen decreased the relative volume of atria in both groups of chicks, and parabronchial lumen in the older ones. It can be concluded that hypoxia during the embryonic phase of parabronchial development can lead to a morphological remodeling characterized by increase of structures responsible directly for gas exchange at the expense of regions that participate in the conduction of air in chicks up to 10 days after hatch. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/01861-2 - Effect of hypoxia during late phase of incubation on post-hatching lung structures in broiler |
| Grantee: | Lara do Amaral Silva |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |