Pancreatic atrophy caused by dietary selenium deficiency induces hypoinsulinemic hyperglycemia via global down-regulation of selenoprotein encoding genes in broilers

• Jingyang Xu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jingyang Xu, Longqiong Wang

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Animal Nutrition Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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• Longqiong Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jingyang Xu, Longqiong Wang

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Animal Nutrition Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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• Jiayong Tang,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Animal Nutrition Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, Trace Element Research Center, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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• Gang Jia,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations Animal Nutrition Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, Trace Element Research Center, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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• Guangmang Liu,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Animal Nutrition Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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• Xiaoling Chen,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Animal Nutrition Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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• Jingyi Cai,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Animal Nutrition Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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• Haiying Shang,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animal Nutrition Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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• Hua Zhao

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhua666@126.com

  Affiliations Animal Nutrition Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, Trace Element Research Center, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0334-4189

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