growth hormone technology - (Jun/17/2007 )

I am wondering how growth hormone was inserted in cow'smilk gene and was produced fully functional when collected with milk.

I want to know how it was done? DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW?

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i don't know if it was inserted into milk gene or another, but it's like other genes
is there something special!

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i'm not sure if it is injected or given to the cow in the feed but growth hormone is not introduced to the cow as a gene. as with humans, drugs that are given to the cow will accumulate in the milk.

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the bovine growth hormone (bGH) will accumulate in the milk, but it won`t cause any harm to human as its protein structure is different with human GH. instead, the high level of bIGF-1 contained in the milk might be carcinogenic as it has almost similar protein structure with hIGF-1.

that`s what I read in some papers
and if I have to choose, I will drink the bGH-free milk there`s never be too careful

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If someone drinks milk with bovine growth hormone, I would assume everything to be digested and not much of the hormone remaining (probably peptides) when it enters the bloodstream to make a major impact.

The digestion process starts in the mouth and the low pH in the stomach, then being bombarded by a variety of enzyme in the intestines which would break up everything. So one has to ask, how much bGH actually enters the bloodstream of a human drinking the milk? And what are the side effects on of it or the degraded products of bGH on humans?

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