Tetramethylpyrazine
Mitigates
Toxicity and Liver Oxidative Stress in Tibial Dyschondroplasia
Chickens
Khalid Mehmood1,2§, Hui Zhang1§,
Muhammad Kashif Iqbal1, Mujeeb Ur Rehman1,
Kun Li1,Shucheng Huang1,
Muhammad Shahzad1, Fazul Nabi1, Mujahid Iqbal1and
Jiakui Li1,3,*
1College
of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan
430070, PR China; 2College of Veterinary and Animal
Sciences, Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan; 3College
of Animals Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Tibet Agricultural and
Animal Husbandry University, Linzhi, Tibet860000, PR China;
*Corresponding author: lijk210@sina.com
Abstract
Tibial dyschondroplasia (TD) is a skeletal
abnormality in fast growing bird, which causes down grading and serious poultry
welfare issues in meat industry. TD is described as a non-viable and
un-mineralized cartilage in the tibial growth plate of chickens which fails to
become bone. The present study was designated to check the effect of Tetramethylpyrazine
(TMP) on
liver oxidative stress and toxicity in thiram induced tibial dyschondroplasia chickens. One
hundred and eighty (1-day
old) broiler chickens were equally divided into
three groups including Control, Thiram induced (50mg/kg/d) and TMP treatment (30 mg/kg/d).
All groups were raised under standard hygienic conditions and chickens were
slaughtered to collect blood, liver and tibial bone samples on day 7, 10, 14 and
18 from each group. Thiram caused lameness, and significantly decreased ALP
activity and increased ALT and AST contents in the serum of thiram group as
compared to control group. The level of GSH-Px, T-AOC and SOD was significantly
decreased (P<0.05), while the MDA value and size of growth plate (GP) was
increased in TD afflicted chickens as compared to control group.However, the TMP administration increased the ALP contents, and decreased
the AST and ALT contents significantly (P<0.05). Furthermore, it
increased SOD, T-AOC and GSH-Px and decreased MDA
contents significantly (P<0.05). TMP treatment to TD afflicted birds prevented
lameness, while reinstated the size of growth plate, angiogenesis, and antioxidant imbalance. TMP may be effective to
treat and control of TD along with minimizing the liver damages in TD chickens.
To Cite This Article: Mehmood K, Zhang H, Iqbal MK, Rehman MU, Li K,Huang S, Shahzad M,
Nabi F, Mujahid I and Li J, 2018.
Tetramethylpyrazine mitigates toxicity and
liver oxidative stress in tibial dyschondroplasia chickens.
Pak Vet J, 38(1): 76-80. http://dx.doi.org/10.29261/pakvetj/2018.015