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Recombinant bovine somatotropin is growth promoting and lipolytic in fattening lambs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2017

R.A. Pullar ,
I.D. Johnsson ,
P.M.E. Chadwick  and
I.C. Hart
R.A. Pullar
Affiliation:
Animal and Grassland Research Institute, Shinfield, Reading, Berkshire, RG2 9AQ
I.D. Johnsson
Affiliation:
Animal and Grassland Research Institute, Shinfield, Reading, Berkshire, RG2 9AQ
P.M.E. Chadwick
Affiliation:
Animal and Grassland Research Institute, Shinfield, Reading, Berkshire, RG2 9AQ
I.C. Hart
Affiliation:
Coopers Animal Health Ltd., Berkhamsted, Herts, HP4 2QE
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Recombinant-DNA-derived bovine somatotropin has similar metabolic activities to pituitary-derived hormone in both laboratory animals (growth promotion), and in dairy cows (milk stimulation), but anabolic effects have not been investigated in ruminants. Although there is some controversy as to whether recombinant somatotropin has intrinsic lipolytic activity, the release of non-esterified fatty acids in vivo following a single injection (Hart et al. 1984) and the reduction in carcass fat after long-term treatment periods in sheep (Johnsson et al. 1986) indicate lipolytic and/or antilipogenic activity. This study was initially planned to examine these activities during long-term administration of recombinant bovine somatotropin in lambs. However, four cases of uriolitholiasis caused the proposed study of fat turnover to be abandoned and the following data are from those lambs which showed no symptoms of this problem.

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New Approaches to Growth Manipulation
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1986 , March 1986 , pp. 3
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1986

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