Milk and Honey, er, Hormones

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Bowing to pressure from consumer advocates, Pennsylvania officials have dropped plans to bar farmers from revealing whether or not milk hails from hormone-enhanced cows. The state's agriculture department on Thursday issued new guidelines that allow dairies to label milk so that customers know if it was produced from cows pumped with recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) also known as recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST)

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Administration of Adrenocorticotropic Hormone During Chicken Embryonic Development Prematurely Induces Pituitary Growth Hormone Cells

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"Treatment of fetal rats and embryonic chickens with exogenous glucocorticoids induces premature growth hormone (GH) cell differentiation. However, it is unknown whether the developing adrenal gland is capable of mounting this response autonomously. The present study determined whether stimulation of the adrenal gland in developing chicken embryos through administration of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) could induce a premature increase in GH cells."

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