Growth Hormone of Pakistani Buffalo
Khalid, Sumbul
The administration of exogenous somatotropin (ST) has been shown to increase lactation performance in mammals ranging from laboratory animals to humans. Therefore, keeping in view the importance of this hormone in milk and meat production, somatotropin cDNA has been cloned from a Pakistani buffalo, sequenced and expressed. The sequence obtained has been used for comparative modeling. The amino acid sequence of the buST cDNA was deduced using o...