Charmantier G, Charmantier-Daures M, Aiken D E
Laboratoire d'Ecophysiologie des Invertébrés, Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, Montpellier.
C R Acad Sci III. 1989;308(1):21-6.
Larval and postlarval lobsters, injected with human somatotropin (STH, or growth hormone), grew at a more rapid rate than untreated control animals over succeeding molts. Their mean carapace length was significantly longer than that of controls and they were heavier, although the moisture content of treated and control animals was similar. Injected STH increased the growth rate of individual animals by 10 to 20%. This is the first evidence for a growth enhancing effect of human somatotropin on a Crustacean.
注射了人生长激素（STH，即生长激素）的幼体和后期幼体龙虾，在随后的蜕壳过程中比未处理的对照动物生长速度更快。它们的平均甲壳长度明显长于对照组，体重也更重，尽管处理组和对照组动物的水分含量相似。注射的STH使个体动物的生长速度提高了10%至20%。这是人生长激素对甲壳类动物具有生长促进作用的首个证据。
