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Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4801
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ABSTRACT
Bovine growth hormone was administered to four Holstein cows (late lactation) in a Latin square. Treatments were 1) control, subcutaneous injection of placebo, 2) subcutaneous injection of 25 IU growth hormone on alternate days, 3) daily subcutaneous injection of 25 IU growth hormone, and 4) continuous subcutaneous infusion of 25 IU/d growth hormone. Intravenous challenges of epinephrine and thyrotropin-releasing hormone were administered separately on the 1st d after a 12-d interval of growth hormone treatment. Baseline concentrations of nonesterified fatty acids in plasma were not affected by growth hormone treatment. However, release of nonesterified fatty acids to epinephrine challenge was positively related to amount of growth hormone in plasma during treatment and was correlated with milk fat yield and milk energy secretion. Growth hormone release following thyrotropin-releasing hormone was negatively related to amount of growth hormone in plasma during treatment. Release of prolactin to thyrotropin-releasing hormone challenge was not related to average daily dose of exogenous growth hormone. The galactopoeitic action of growth hormone may be partly attributable to its effects on responsiveness of adipose tissue to a lipolytic stimulus but apparently is not associated with changes of pituitary sensitivity to thyrotrophin-releasing hormone. Results are consistent with growth hormone functioning as a homeorhectic control of nutrient partitioning.
1 Supported in part by Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of H. R. Spires (Syntex Research) and R. C. Gorewit, B. A. Palhof, and W. A. English (Cornell University).
2 On leave from Department of Animal Science, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
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