Does the Third Pancreatic Hormone (APP) Play a Trophic Role in the Growth of the Embryonic Chick Proventriculus?
- 1 February 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Experimental Biology and Medicine
- Vol. 160 (2) , 144-149
- https://doi.org/10.3181/00379727-160-40407
Abstract
Avian pancreatic polypeptide (APP) is a recently discovered pancreatic peptide with hormone-like characteristics which acts as a gastric (proventricular) secretagogue in chickens. When injected into 12-14 day old fertile eggs, APP caused a marked increase in proventricular protein/DNA ratio within 2 days, and caused incorporation of labeled [14C]Leu into proventricular, but not into liver, protein unless very high doses were employed. APP may be an anabolic and secretogogic regulator of the developing avian gut.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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