The Effect of Oxidative Stress on the Chicken Ovary: Involvement of Microbiota and Melatonin Interventions

• Main Authors: Jianping Wang (Author), Ru Jia (Author), Haojie Gong (Author), Pietro Celi (Author), Yong Zhuo (Author), Xuemei Ding (Author), Shiping Bai (Author), Qiufeng Zeng (Author), Huadong Yin (Author), Shengyu Xu (Author), Jingbo Liu (Author), Xiangbing Mao (Author), Keying Zhang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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The poultry ovary is used as a classic model to study ovarian biology and ovarian cancer. Stress factors induced oxidative stress to cause follicle atresia, which may be a fundamental reason for the reduction in fertility in older laying hens or in aging women. In the present study, we set out to ch...