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EPO Protein Expression and Hypoxic Adaptation Analysis in Tibetan Pig

WU Hong1,DEJI Bazhuo1,ZHANG Jian1,WANG Ya-fei1,ZHANG Hao2,CHAMBA Yangzom1   

  1.  (1.College of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Tibet University,Linzhi 860000,China;2.College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193,China)
  • Received:2013-12-04 Online:2014-04-20 Published:2014-05-27

Abstract: In order to explore the relationship between the expression of erythropoietin (EPO) in kidney tissue of Tibetan pig and hypoxia adaptation, the Western blotting technique was used to detect EPO protein and the kidney tissue which was from Tibetan pig and Large Yorkshire in different altitudes was used in this study. The high altitude Tibetan pigs and Large Yorkshire pigs were from Linzhi of Tibet, and the low altitude were from Beijing and Hefei of Anhui. The results showed that the EPO protein of ZZ,ZB,YZ,YH in A,B and C three groups of experiments was in different expression. Through comparative and analysis, the EPO protein expression was significant difference between high altitude Large Yorkshire pigs and the high altitude Tibetan pigs (P<0.05), and it was extremely significant difference between high altitude Large Yorkshire pigs and the low altitude of Tibetan pigs and Large Yorkshire pigs in group A (P<0.01);The EPO protein expression was no significant difference between high altitude Tibetan pigs and the low altitude Tibetan pigs (P>0.05), and it was significant difference between high altitude Tibetan pigs and the high and low altitude Large Yorkshire pigs in group B (P<0.05);The EPO protein expression was significant difference between Tibetan pigs (P<0.05), and it was extremely significant difference between low altitude Tibetan pigs and the high and low altitude Large Yorkshire pigs in group C (P<0.01). When Large Yorkshire pigs were in the high altitude emergency state, the EPO protein expression of Large Yorkshire was higher than Tibetan pigs. When Yorkshire pigs had lived for a long time in the highlands, the EPO protein expression was lower than Tibetan pigs, but higher than the low altitude Yorkshire pigs. The stable expression of EPO was an essential factor of Tibetan pigs to adapt to high altitude hypoxia environment. And the high expression of EPO protein in high altitude Large Yorkshire’s kidney tissue was the physical adjustment process which could help Yorkshire pigs adapt to the plateau low oxygen environment.

Key words: Tibetan pig; Large Yorkshire pig; Western blotting; kidney tissue; EPO protein; difference; hypoxic adaptation