To study the Protegrin-1(PG-1) gene expression difference in femur marrow of piglets at different ages and effect of that by weaning, an optimized semi-quantitative RT-PCR was applied by using 18S rRNA as inner marker. Samples were taken at birth, 3, 14, 23, 28 days of age respectively. The results showed that age affected PG-1 mRNA levels in femur marrow significantly (P〈 0.05), the expression of PG-1 mRNA was the lowest at birth, then increased remarkably. Weaning affected PG-1 mRNA levels significantly also (P〈0.05). The PG-1 gene ex...