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APPETITE, OBESITY, DIGESTION, AND METABOLISM

Heat stress increases apical glucose transport in the chicken jejunum

¹Departament de Fisiologia, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; and ²Division of Genetics and Genomics, Roslin Institute, Roslin, United Kingdom

Submitted 2 June 2005 ; accepted in final form 1 September 2005

In chickens, elevated environmental temperature reduces food intake. We have previously reported that, during heat stress, the intestinal mucosa has an increased capacity to take up sugars. To investigate whether the effects of warm environment on sugar uptake are an intestinal adaptation to lower energy intake or a response attributable to heat stress, we examined the glucose transport kinetics of apical and basolateral membranes of the jejunum and the mucosal morphology of broiler chickens maintained in climatic chambers for 2 wk. Experimental groups were 1) control ad libitum (CAL), fed ad libitum and in thermoneutral conditions (20°C); 2) heat stress ad libitum (HSAL), fed ad libitum and kept in a heated environment (30°C); and 3) control pair-fed (CPF), maintained in thermoneutral conditions and fed the same amount of food as that consumed by the HSAL group. Both the CPF and the HSAL groups showed reduced body weight gain, but only the HSAL chickens had lower plasma thyroid hormones and higher corticosterone than CAL and CPF groups. The fresh weight and length of the jejunum were only reduced in the HSAL group. The activity and expression of apical sodium-dependent glucose transporter 1 (SGLT-1) were increased by 50% in the HSAL chickens, without effects in the CPF group. No changes in K_d or in SGLT-1 and glucose transporter-2 K_m were observed in the pair-fed and heated birds. These results support the view that increased intestinal hexose transport capacity is entirely dependent on adaptations of apical SGLT-1 expression to heat stress and is not due to reduced food intake.

chronic heat exposure; glucose transporter 2; hexose transport; intestinal absorption; sodium-dependent glucose transporter 1