Changes in growth hormone status related to body weight of growing cattle

Trenkle, A.

Growth 41(4): 241-247

1977


ISSN/ISBN: 0017-4793
PMID: 604180
Document Number: 123119
Growth hormone was determined in the blood and adenohypophysis of 24 castrated male cattle slaughtered at various ages. Metabolic clearance and secretion of the injected hormone was measured before slaughter. Basal secretion of the hormone was related to the amount of hormone in the pituitary. As the animals grew there was a gradual decline in the amount of hormone available per unit of body mass.

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