Journal
AQUACULTURE
Volume 469, Issue -, Pages 28-35Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2016.12.003
Keywords
Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus); Ration; Growth performance; Lipid; Food ingestion
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Funding
- National Basic Research Program of China [2014CB138602]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS [2013223]
- China Agriculture Research System [CARS-46-19]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31672670]
- fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest [201203015, 201203083, 201303053]
- Fund Project in State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology [2016FBZ05]
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Aquatic Resources Conservation and Development [SS201401]
- Key Project of Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Department [2016JZ0001]
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It is well known that most fish would prefer to use body lipid stores for energy expenditure when receiving a long-term food restriction. However, the mechanism of this is still not clear. In the present study, a growth experiment was carried out to investigate the effects of food restriction on growth performance, gene expression related in regulation of lipid metabolism and food ingestion in grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus). Four rations, satiation (S), 80% S, 60% S and 40% S, were adopted in this study. Each treatment was randomly assigned to triplicate net cages of 15 fish (177.3 +/- 3.3 g) per cage. The experiment lasted for 49 days at 30.0 +/- 3.0 degrees C. The experimental results showed that a significant increase in feeding rate and weight gain was found in grass carp with the increased ration level. The body lipid and energy content of the grass carp exhibited a significant decrease when receiving food restriction. The transcriptional levels of the genes involved in lipogenesis (srebp-1c, fas, ppar gamma) were down-regulated at the rations of food restriction. The relative expression of hepatic fas (fatty acid synthetase) and srebp-1c (sterol regulatory element-binding protein 1c) in the fish at satiation were significantly higher than the restricted-fed groups. Similarly, the expressions of hepatic ppar. (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma) in the fish at the ration of satiation and 80% S were significantly higher than the group at the low ration of 40% S. However, the expression of hepatic cpt-1a (carnitine palmitoyl transferase I) involved in fatty acid beta-oxidation in fish was significantly up-regulated when receiving food restriction. Other hepatic lipolysis genes of ppar alpha (peroxisome proliferators-activated receptor alpha) and hl (hepatic lipase) didn't show any significant changes in restricted-fed fish. The transcriptional levels of hepatic leptin and hypothalamus pomc (proopiomelanocortin) were significantly down-regulated in fish fed with restricted rations. But the hypothalamus npy (neuropeptide Y) and lepr (leptin receptor) had no change. The present results indicated that a long-term food restriction could cause less accumulation of lipid and could be through a way of down-regulating lipogenesis genes and up-regulating lipolysis genes. Long-term restriction could also activate the appetite of grass carp by down-regulating some anorexigenic genes. Statement of relevance: Food restriction for some time could lead to a suitable lipid storage, in case of accumulation of fatty acid profile and lipid, in cultured grass carp. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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