PMID- 34291833 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220506 LR - 20220506 IS - 1439-0396 (Electronic) IS - 0931-2439 (Linking) VI - 106 IP - 3 DP - 2022 May TI - Impacts of caffeine on resistant chicken's performance and cardiovascular gene expression. PG - 566-574 LID - 10.1111/jpn.13608 [doi] AB - We previously reported a study on 288 broiler (Gallus gallus) chicks who received caffeine in water between days 3 and 42, at levels of 0, 6.25, 12.5, 25, 50 and 100 mg/kg body weight (BW)/day. In the previous report, we found that caffeine caused pulmonary hypertension (PH)-associated mortality in a significant minority (20%-30%) of birds, including right ventricular hypertrophy and ascites. We have also shown a significant upregulation of the serotonin transporter (SERT), troponin T2, adenosine A(1) receptor (ADORA1) and phosphodiesterase 5A (PDE5) in chicken suffering from PH. Here, we examine the resistant (survived) chicks from the first study that had not died due to acute heart failure and did not have clinical signs of pulmonary hypertension. Our goal was to determine whether birds who lacked overt signs of disease had subclinical manifestations, including similar changes in gene expression, growth rates and altered systemic haemodynamics. We found that growth was significantly increased by caffeine consumption (p < 0.01) at low doses; however, dosage over 50 mg/BW/d had remarkable adverse effects on growth (p < 0.01). Blood pressure, troponin T2 and PDE5 gene expression were not significantly altered by caffeine administration (p > 0.05). However, SERT gene expression linearly increased with increasing caffeine dosage (p < 0.01). The impact of caffeine on ADORA1 gene expression was dose dependent and nonlinear. In conclusion, despite the significant effects of caffeine on birds' growth, no significant negative effects of caffeine were observed on the cardiovascular function of resistant chickens. This work provides valuable information for further study on different dosage of caffeine in an animal model. CI - (c) 2021 Wiley-VCH GmbH. FAU - Kamely, Mohammad AU - Kamely M AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0925-240X AD - Department of Poultry Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. AD - Division Animal and Human Health Engineering, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, University of KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. FAU - Karimi Torshizi, Mohammad Amir AU - Karimi Torshizi MA AD - Department of Poultry Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. FAU - West, James AU - West J AD - Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA. FAU - Niewold, Theo AU - Niewold T AD - Niewold Consultancy, Bierbeek, Belgium. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20210722 PL - Germany TA - J Anim Physiol Anim Nutr (Berl) JT - Journal of animal physiology and animal nutrition JID - 101126979 RN - 0 (Receptor, Adenosine A1) RN - 0 (Troponin T) RN - 3G6A5W338E (Caffeine) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Caffeine/pharmacology MH - *Chickens/metabolism MH - Gene Expression MH - *Hypertension, Pulmonary/veterinary MH - Receptor, Adenosine A1/genetics/metabolism MH - Troponin T/genetics OTO - NOTNLM OT - broiler OT - caffeine OT - gene expression OT - lactic acid dehydrogenase OT - phosphodiesterase OT - serotonin transporter EDAT- 2021/07/23 06:00 MHDA- 2022/05/07 06:00 CRDT- 2021/07/22 08:47 PHST- 2021/06/16 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/09/11 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/07/06 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/07/23 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/05/07 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/07/22 08:47 [entrez] AID - 10.1111/jpn.13608 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Anim Physiol Anim Nutr (Berl). 2022 May;106(3):566-574. doi: 10.1111/jpn.13608. Epub 2021 Jul 22.