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Poultry Science, Vol 79, Issue 8, 1172-1178
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Immunolocalization analysis of transforming growth factor-beta1 in the growth plates of broiler chickens with high and low incidences of tibial dyschondroplasia

J Ling, SA Kincaid, GR McDaniel, and W Waegell

Department of Poultry Science, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn 36849, USA.

Immunolocalization of transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) was determined in growth plates of two lines of broiler chickens with low and high incidences of tibial dyschondroplasia (TD). Ultrathin sections of growth plates from each line were treated with a polyclonal antibody specific for TGF-beta1, followed by colloidal gold-labeled protein A. Immunolocalization for TGF-beta1 was observed in chondrocytes of all zones of growth plates of low and high TD incidence lines. However, immunolocalization in extracellular matrix was restricted to the hypertrophic zones of both lines. In the hypertrophic zone of low TD incidence line, immunolocalization of TGF-beta1 in the extracellular matrix adjacent to collapsed cartilage canals (matrix streaks) was significantly greater than immunolocalization between patent cartilage canals. A similar increase was not observed in the high TD incidence line. Results indicate that chondrocytes of all zones of the growth plate contain TGF-beta1 but do not release it into extracellular matrix until hypertrophy has occurred. Greater concentrations of TGF-beta1 adjacent to collapsed cartilage canals may play a role in controlling angiogenesis and directing invasion of mineralized hypertrophic cartilage by metaphyseal blood vessels. A low concentration of TGF-beta1 in the extracellular matrix adjacent to collapsed cartilage canals of the high TD incidence line may be a factor in limiting vascular invasion of dyschondroplastic cartilage of TD lesions.


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