Table 1.

Tissue distribution of ‘wild-type’ preproghrelin, the Δex2 preproghrelin and Δex2,3 preproghrelin variants (encoded by GHRL ), and GOAT (encoded by MBOAT4 ) in sheep, determined using qualitative RT-PCR

Tissue	Preproghrelin	Δex2 preproghrelin	Δex2,3 preproghrelin	GOAT
Aorta	+	-	-	-
Abomasum	+	+	+	+
Bladder	-	+	-	-
Colon	+	+	-	+
Heart muscle	+	-	-	+
Hypothalamus	+	+	-	-
Kidney	+	-	-	+
Large intestine	+	+	-	+
Liver	+	+	-	+
Lung	+	+	-	+
MLN	+	+	-	+
Pancreas	+	+	-	+
Salivary gland	+	-	-	+
Skeletal muscle	-	-	-	+
Small intestine	+	+	+	+
Spleen	+	-	-	+
Trachea	+	-	-	-
Tooth	+	+	-	+
Vein	+	+	-	-
White blood cells	-	+	+	-

MLN denotes Mesenteric Lymph Node. + = expressed. - = not detected.