Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences
DOI
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Abstract
This study was conducted to evaluate the breast skin collagen content and electrophoretic analyses of type I collagen in heterozygous naked neck and normally feathered commercial chicks. A total of 72 birds from each genotype were randomly selected at 7 weeks and slaughtered. Breast skin was separated from each carcass and was analysed for collagen content and gel electrophopresis of type I collagen was performed. Males had significantly higher level of skin collagen content than females in both genotypes. In the naked neck chickens ??1 , and ??2 bands were highly intensive than the commercial ones indicating that the collagen has become cross-linked by non-reducible covalent bands. On the other hand, normally feathered chickens had higher intensity of ??and ??bands than the naked neck chickens.
Keywords
naked neck gene, skin tears, type I collagen.
First Page
483
Last Page
488
Recommended Citation
BİLGEN, GÜLDEHEN; OKTAY, GÜLGÜN; TOKGÖZ, ZEYNEP; GÜNER, GÜL; and YALÇIN, SERVET (1999) "Collagen Content and Electrophoretic Analysis of Type I Collagen in BreastSkin of Heterozygous Naked Neck and Normally Feathered CommercialBroilers," Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences: Vol. 23: No. 5, Article 13. Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/veterinary/vol23/iss5/13