Growth Hormone and Nutritional Regulation of Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I Gene Expression

The objectives of this research were to characterize insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) gene expression in cattle, to determine how IGF-I gene expression is affected by nutritional intake and growth hormone (GH) in cattle, and to identify the regulatory DNA region that mediates GH stimulation of I...

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Main Author: Wang, Ying
Other Authors: Animal and Poultry Sciences
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30208
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12212005-194254/