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Influence of Age and Adding Boron on the Sex Hormone in Serum of Male Young Ostrich

WEI Lan1, LI Jian1, SI Li-fang1, LIU Ning1, PENG Ke-mei2   

  1. 1. College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471003, China;
    2. College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
  • Received:2012-08-29 Online:2013-02-20 Published:2013-02-06

Abstract: Taking different age of male young struthio camelus as its experimental animal, this research added different doses of boron into its drinking water, and adopted the method of radioimmunoassay (RIA) to detect the contents of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH), testosterone (T), and estradiol (E2) in serum under different levels of boron and at different age. It aimed to explore the influence of boron on the levels of serum hormone of young struthio camelus. The results indicated that the contents of FSH and E2 of male struthio camelus increase with that of boron, with the change of the boron doses the contents of LH and T showed a certain relevancy,their contents rised with low boron while reduced with medium and high boron, the contents of LH and T rised with the age increasing and E2 gradually reducing, while FSH firstly increased then reduced. The results demonstrated that boron had a certain function in regulating Struthio camelus' endocrine and reproduction, and age exerted certain influence on Struthio camelus'serum sex hormone.

Key words: boron; Struthio camelus; serum; hormone

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