1986
DOI: 10.1038/323169a0
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Growth restoration of insulin-deficient diabetic rats by recombinant human insulin-like growth factor I

Abstract: Insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and insulin stem from a common precursor, are structural homologues, act through similar receptors and elicit insulin-like and growth-promoting effects in vitro and in vivo. Serum IGF-I levels are controlled by growth hormone, insulin and nutrition. Insulin-deficient growth-arrested diabetic animals have reduced serum IGF-I levels which are restored towards normal by insulin but not by growth-hormone treatment. Here we show that normal growth of diabetic rate is restored by… Show more

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“…The mechanisms involved in this apparent resistance to GH are not known. However, the observations reported by Scheiwiller et al, [25] that administration of IGF-I is able to stimulate growth in diabetic rats supports the hypothesis that the major defect is in activation of IGF-I expression. The data reported here support the hypothesis that there is a defect in IGF-I gene activation in the diabetic rat effecting not only growth hormone-induced IGF-I expression but also IGF-I gene activation in response to another stimuli.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 46%
“…The mechanisms involved in this apparent resistance to GH are not known. However, the observations reported by Scheiwiller et al, [25] that administration of IGF-I is able to stimulate growth in diabetic rats supports the hypothesis that the major defect is in activation of IGF-I expression. The data reported here support the hypothesis that there is a defect in IGF-I gene activation in the diabetic rat effecting not only growth hormone-induced IGF-I expression but also IGF-I gene activation in response to another stimuli.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 46%
“…Serum insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) levels were significantly decreased in ␤GsKO mice compared with control and E1 fl/ϩ :cre ϩ mice, and this may be an important contributing factor to the poor linear growth in these mice. Insulin has been shown to regulate the expression of both IGF1 and its binding proteins, and poor growth in insulindeficient diabetics has been ascribed to low IGF1 levels (18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23). Therefore, the poor growth and low IGF1 levels observed in ␤GsKO mice may be secondary to hypoinsulinemia, although reduced growth hormone secretion from the pituitary is another potential contributing factor.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Insulin induces IGF1 expression and poor growth in diabetics with low IGF1 levels is reversed by IGF1 replacement (18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23). Therefore, hypoinsulinemia may account for the low IGF1 levels and poor growth in ␤GsKO mice.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this scenario (Fig. 8), an increased circulating insulin level (in response to an elevated nutrient level and hormonal action) will act on the liver and perhaps other tissues to stimulate the synthesis of IGF-1 (29,30). IGF-1 then will in turn bind to its own receptors on the ␤ cell surface, thereby activating PDE3B and decreasing cAMP.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%