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WORLDS POULTRY SCIENCE JOURNAL
卷 68, 期 1, 页码 71-82出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0043933912000086
关键词
laying hens; medullary bone; cancellous bone; cortical bone; osteoclast; egg production; bone remodelling; histomorphometry; bone density
资金
- Manitoba Egg Farmer
- Manitoba Agri-Food Research and Development Initiative (ARDI)
- Natural Science and Engineering Council (NSERC)
Laying hens have a unique bone turnover due to the daily egg laying cycle. Laying hens have three distinctive kinds of bones related to egg formation: cortical, cancellous, and medullary bones. Cortical bone is a compact structural bone, whereas cancellous bone is the three-dimensional lattice-like honeycomb architecture at the end of long bones. Medullary bone is a highly labile woven bone lying in the marrow cavities. Medullary bone acts as Ca storage for egg shell formation. Thus, bone quality is closely related with egg production and eggshell quality. During the daily egg laying cycle, medullary bone osteoclasts alternately cease and accelerate bone resorption. Although osteoclast numbers are not changed during the daily egg laying cycle, considerable morphological changes in osteoclasts occur along with changes in calcium requirements for egg shell formation. Furthermore, the selection of proper methods is critical to obtain precise bone evaluation data, and include bone ashing, densitometric techniques, mechanical testing, or histomorphometry to evaluate bone status in laying hens. Since bone metabolism in laying hens is related to economic and animal welfare issues, better understanding of bone metabolism in laying hens would be important to enhance productivity and improve animal welfare.
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