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1 Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Hawaii, Honolulu 96822
2 Department of Oncology, and
3 Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2P5
Corresponding author: J. Yang; e-mail: jinzeng{at}hawaii.edu.
Bovine somatotropin (bST) increases milk production in lactating cows through its effect on nutrient partition and maintenance of mammary cell function. A positive relationship between bST treatment and abundance of ß-casein mRNA in mammary tissues from lactating cows was hypothesized. In mammary tissue isolated from 14 midlactation Holstein cows, ß-casein mRNA was 35.4% higher among 7 cows receiving continuous bST infusions at 29 mg/d for 63 d compared with tissue from 7 untreated control cows. To investigate whether increased ß-casein mRNA resulted from a direct effect of bST on the mammary gland, explants of mammary tissue from other lactating cows that had not received bST were incubated with bST and prolactin in 2 experiments. Mammary explant cultures taken from 2 lactating cows that had not been milked for 48 h were supplemented with either prolactin or bST. Both prolactin and bST stimulated higher levels of ß-casein mRNA in the mammary explants compared with their non-supplemented counterparts. Explant cultures from 4 additional lactating cows were prepared from rear quarter mammary tissue subjected to milking intervals of 6 h for right rear quarters or 20 h for left rear quarters. Both bST- and prolactin-mediated increases in ß-casein mRNA were dependent on milking intervals. That is, levels of ß-casein mRNA were increased by bST or prolactin supplementation in explants isolated from the mammary quarters biopsied 20 h after milking but not for those biopsied at 6 h after milking. Results are consistent with a potential role for bST in up-regulating or sparing ß-casein mRNA levels in lactating bovine mammary tissue in a manner similar to prolactin.
Key Words: bovine • growth hormone • lactation • mammary gland
Abbreviation key: BM = basal medium, GH = growth hormone
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