Table 9.
Effects of capsaicin on the ovarian mRNA expression abundance of genes involved in estrogen synthesis in 64-wk-old laying ducks.1
| Item | CON | 150 mg/kg capsaicin |
SEM | P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PF | AF | ||||
| FOXL2 | 0.90 | 1.15 | 1.19 | 0.22 | 0.71 |
| STAR | 0.73 | 0.84 | 1.06 | 0.15 | 0.69 |
| CYP19A1 | 0.79 | 0.97 | 1.16 | 0.14 | 0.27 |
Abbreviations: AF, ad libitum fed; CON, basal control groups without supplementation of capsaicin; CYP19A1, Cytochrome P450 family 19 subfamily A member 1; FOXL2, Forkhead Box L2; PF, pair fed to control treatment; STAR, steroidogenic acute regulatory protein.
1
Data are means for n = 6 replicates (2 ducks/replicate).