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Five lactating goats were infused, via an external pudic arterial catheter, directly into the mammary gland with 0·9% (w/v) NaCl (20 ml/h), recombinant human insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I; 80 nmol/h), recombinant human IGF-II (133 nmol/h) or IGF-I and IGF-II combined. The infusion was for 6 h and milk yield was determined every 2 h. The ratio of milk yield in the infused relative to the non-infused gland was changed only slightly by saline (2%), but increased to 9% (P<0·05) in response to IGF-I and 8% (P<0·05) in response to IGF-II. When combined, both peptides increased this ratio by 6%. These effects were elicited within 2–4 h of the beginning of infusion. Mammary blood flow increased 50–80% (P<0·05) during all IGF infusions, but only 28% during saline treatment. Plasma insulin decreased 50% (P<0·01) during the infusion of IGF-I alone or in combination with IGF-II and 25% in response to IGF-II alone. Whereas plasma glucose increased by approximately 10% during infusion of IGF-I alone or with IGF-II, it was not altered by infusion of IGF-II only.

The rapidity and unilateral nature of the milk-yield response to IGF-I and IGF-II is consistent with their acting directly on mammary tissue itself. Thus, the present results demonstrate similar local and systemic actions induced by intramammary infusion of IGF-II and IGF-I, although the magnitude of the response to IGF-II tends to be less than that to IGF-I.

Journal of Endocrinology (1994) 142, 93–99

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