Thyroidal influence on body growth

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This review of thyroid influence on body growth in poultry is organized around the following parameters of growth: 1) increase in body weight and skeletal size, 2) muscle growth, and 3) growth of cartilage and bone. The greatest effect of goitrogens on growth of embryos occurs during late embryogenesis at a time when normal thyroid hormone levels are increasing. Posthatching growth is reduced in severely hypothyroid animals, and body weight gain is affected more than bone growth. Thyroid hormone replacement restores body growth of thyroidectomized chickens, but supplemental hormone in normal animals has no beneficial effect on growth. Excessive T<jats:sub>3</jats:sub> (fed at 1 ppm) is detrimental to growth and feed efficiency. No clear correlation between thyroid hormone concentration and growth rate of normal chickens has been identified. Growth depression in sex‐linked dwarf birds is at least partially reversed by supplemental T<jats:sub>3</jats:sub>. Muscle growth is reduced in goitrogen‐treated chickens and the growth reduction is reversed by supplemental thyroxine. Total DNA accumulation is reduced in hypothyroid chickens, but muscle mass relative to DNA content is normal following long‐term treatment; this suggests some regulation of muscle mass relative to DNA content. T<jats:sub>3</jats:sub> increases the number of muscle fiber nuclei in hypothyroid chickens and the uptake of <jats:sup>3</jats:sup>H‐thymidine into nuclei within the basal lamina. T<jats:sub>3</jats:sub> directly stimulates growth and maturation of embryonic chick cartilage and enhances the in vitro action of somatomedins on cartilage growth. There is little information concerning the role of the thyroid in posthatching cartilage and bone growth in poultry.</jats:p>

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