Research Article

The Attenuating Effect of the Intraovarian Bone Morphogenetic Protein 4 on Age-Related Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Chicken Follicular Cells

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Follicular morphology ((a1), (a2)) and expression of FSHR and occludin ((b1), (b2)) in SWFs of the D280 and D580 hens. HE was used to evaluate the morphology of SWFs. Scale bars: (a2) 100 μm (20x) and 50 μm (40x); (b1) 50 μm. Analysis by qRT-PCR showed that FSHR mRNA ((b1), (b2) A) decreased in D580-SWFs while occludin mRNA ((b2) B) increased. Values were the of three experiments. Different lowercase letters indicated significant difference ().
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