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Animal Growth Regulation (Hardcover, 1989 ed.)
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Animal Growth Regulation (Hardcover, 1989 ed.)
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The biotechnological advances of recent years have put us on the
brink of unprecedented gains in animal productivity. Manipulation
of animal growth rate and composition of gain is now possible by a
variety of techniques. Ex- amples include ingestion of
beta-adrenergic agonists, injection of somatotropin, castration,
immunization, and gene insertion. Animal Growth Regulation ad-
dresses modem concepts of growth regulation with an emphasis on
agricul- turally important animals. This emphasis is not exclusive,
as many situations exist in which the only information available
was generated in other species, and this information has been
included for the sake of clarity and completeness. However, because
of the overall orientation of this volume, particular attention has
been given to the regulation of skeletal muscle, adipose tissue,
and bone growth. Certain hormones and growth factors have a
profound influence on growth regulation and this basic
physiological knowledge is being harnessed to maniplilate growth.
Thus, considerable emphasis has been given to growth hor-
mone-somatomedinlinsulinlike growth factor regulation of cell and
tissue growth. The involvement of peptides coded by protooncogenes
and of negative growth regulators, such as transforming growth
factor-l3, represents an emerging area of molecular biology wherein
basic knowledge offers potential exploitation for growth
manipulation. Opportunities also exist for regulation of protein
turn- over, especially from the standpoint of protein degradation.
Therefore, a place was reserved for these topics in order to
provide relevant basic knowledge.
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