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POULTRY SCIENCE
Volume 98, Issue 1, Pages 422-429Publisher
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DOI: 10.3382/ps/pey315
Keywords
curcumin; broiler chicken; liver; lipid metabolism
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- Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province [2016J01091]
- Foundation of Collaborative Innovation Center of Animal Health and Food Safety Application Technology in Fujian [201703]
- Scientific Research Foundation for Young and Middle-aged Teachers of Fujian Province [JAT160686]
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The purpose of this study was to investigate whether dietary curcumin affects lipid metabolism in the liver of broiler chickens. Four treatment groups were formed from 1200 1-day-old broiler chickens, including a base diet (control, supplemented with 0mg/kg curcumin), 500mg/kg, 1,000mg/kg, and 2,000mg/kg dietary curcumin, for 49 d. At the end of experiment, each group of 50 chickens were sampled and analyzed. Compared with the control group, the results have showed that body weight, average daily weight gain, absolute and relative liver weight significantly decreased in the 1,000 and 2,000mg/kg curcumin groups (P < 0.05). The absolute and relative abdominal fat weight were significantly decreased in the 2,000mg/kg curcumin group (P < 0.05). The concentrations of plasma low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (P < 0.05) and plasma and hepatic triglyceride concentrations (P < 0.01) were markedly decreased in the 2,000mg/kg curcumin group. The hepatic nonesterified fatty acid concentration (P < 0.05) and the hepatic glycogen (P < 0.05) and liver hepatic lipase activities (P < 0.01) were significantly increased in the 1,000 and 2,000mg/kg curcumin groups. The plasma-free triiodothyronine and thyroxine concentrations were significantly increased in the 2,000mg/kg curcumin group (P < 0.05). The gene expression levels of fatty acid synthase (FAS) and sterol regulatory element binding protein-1c (SREBP-1c) were significantly decreased in all curcumin groups (P < 0.05), but the gene expression levels of acetyl CoA carboxylase (ACC) and ATP-citrate lyase (ACLY) were significantly decreased only in the 2,000mg/kg curcumin group (P < 0.05). The expression levels of peroxisome proliferators-activated receptor (PPAR) and carnitine palmitoyl transferase-I (CPT-I) were significantly increased in the 1,000 and 2,000mg/kg curcumin groups (P < 0.05). These results indicated that curcumin plays an important role in reduction abdominal fat deposition by decreasing the hepatic and plasma lipid profile and affecting the expression levels of genes related to lipogenesis and lipolysis including ACC, FAS, SREBP-1c, ACLY, PPAR, and CPT-I.
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