Journal of Animal Science, Vol 70, Issue 1 123-131, Copyright © 1992 by American Society of Animal Science

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Temporal response of circulating metabolites and hormones during somatotropin treatment of growing pigs

F. R. Dunshea, D. E. Bauman, R. D. Boyd and A. W. Bell
Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.

Temporal responses in the circulating concentrations of a number of intermediary metabolites and metabolic hormones were studied in chronically catheterized barrows (n = 4 per treatment) after either daily i.m. injection of porcine somatotropin (pST, 120 micrograms/kg of BW) or excipient. Blood sampling (every 1 or 2 h) began 24 h before the first injection (d 0) and continued until the end of d 2. Sampling was repeated on d 7 of treatment. Feed intake declined by d 3 in the pST-treated pigs and was 31% lower by d 7 of treatment (P less than .05). Blood glucose and plasma insulin concentrations began to increase about 3 h after the first pST injection, almost returning to preinjection levels before the next injection. By the end of d 2, circulating levels of glucose and insulin were higher in pST-treated pigs than in the controls. A temporal pattern of hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia was observed postinjection on each day of treatment. Although pST treatment did not chronically increase basal plasma concentrations of nonesterified fatty acids and glycerol, both metabolites exhibited transient postinjection elevations, the magnitudes of which were augmented by duration of treatment. Plasma urea nitrogen concentrations began to decrease within a few hours after the first pST injection and by d 7 were 70% (P less than .01) lower in the pST-treated pigs. A model is presented implicating pST-induced decreases in peripheral tissue insulin sensitivity and(or) responsiveness in the observed temporal responses in lipid and carbohydrate metabolism.

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