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Poultry Science, Vol 78, Issue 3, 404-411
Copyright © 1999 by Poultry Science Association

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Broiler breeder survivors of chronic unilateral pulmonary artery occlusion produce progeny resistant to pulmonary hypertension syndrome (ascites) induced by cool temperatures

RF Wideman Jr and H French

Department of Poultry Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 72701, USA. rwideman@comp.uark.edu

Chronic occlusion of one pulmonary artery triggers a high incidence of pulmonary hypertension syndrome (PHS, ascites) in broilers. In the present study, the left pulmonary artery was chronically occluded in 295 male and 255 female chicks pedigreed from 18 sire families, leading to PHS in 74% of the males and 45% of the females. Survivors were reared to breeding age and served as parents for the resulting PHS-resistant chicks (Resistant), whereas control chicks were produced from the base population for this line (Base). In two experiments, male and female Resistant and Base chicks were reared separately by sex but mixed by group within environmental chambers, where they were exposed to cool (14 C) temperatures. In both experiments, the incidence of PHS was at least 50% lower in the Resistant males and females than in the Base males and females, respectively. When compared within a sex, the Base and Resistant broilers surviving to the end of both experiments did not differ in final body weight or body weight gain, nor did their right:total ventricular weight (RV:TV) ratios differ. These results demonstrate that broiler breeders capable of thriving after having their entire cardiac output forced to flow through one lung, subsequently produced male and female progeny with substantially improved resistance to the onset of PHS induced by fast growth and exposure to cool environmental temperatures. Fast growth and cool temperatures are primary triggers for PHS under most conditions of commercial broiler growout. In both experiments, final necropsies revealed higher RV:TV ratios in ascitic than in nonascitic broilers, whereas normalizing the left ventricle plus septum weight for differences in body weight generated similar values for ascitic and nonascitic males or females, respectively. These results support a primary role for pulmonary hypertension but not cardiomyopathy in the pathogenesis of ascites triggered by cool temperatures in both the Base and Resistant populations.


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