TY - JOUR
T1 - Response of the intrarenal insulin-like growth factor-I axis to acute ischemic injury and treatment with growth hormone and epidermal growth factor
AU - Fervenza, Fernando C.
AU - Tsao, Tanny
AU - Rabkin, Ralph
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System Research Service. F.C. Fervenza was supported by CNPq (Brazil).
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - We previously reported that following bilateral acute tubular necrosis (ATN) profound changes in the intrarenal insulin-like growth factor-I axis occurs which are unrelated to altered nutritional intake. In this current report we studied rats with unilateral ATN to assess whether these changes reflect a response to acute injury or the accompanying uremia. Compared to the contralateral kidney, the injured kidney showed an increase in IGF-I receptor number without a change in IGF-I receptor mRNA levels, a decrease in IGF-I mRNA and IGF-I protein levels, a decrease in growth hormone (GH) receptor mRNA abundance and receptor binding. There was also a decrease in IGF binding protein-2, -3 and -5 mRNA levels together with a fall in protein products. Since this unilateral ATN model excludes the influence of uremia and reduced nutritional intake, we surmised that these changes reflect a direct response to injury. Next, because of the reduced GH receptor binding noted above and the reported decrease in epidermal growth factor (EGF) expression in ATN, we tested the thesis that the low kidney IGF-I mRNA levels in ATN are partly due to a relative or absolute deficiency of these hormones. Administration of EGF or GH promptly increased ATN kidney IGF-I mRNA levels to control kidney values, lending support to the thesis. The response to EGF also suggests that the salutary effect of EGF treatment in ATN may partly be mediated by stimulating IGF-I production.
AB - We previously reported that following bilateral acute tubular necrosis (ATN) profound changes in the intrarenal insulin-like growth factor-I axis occurs which are unrelated to altered nutritional intake. In this current report we studied rats with unilateral ATN to assess whether these changes reflect a response to acute injury or the accompanying uremia. Compared to the contralateral kidney, the injured kidney showed an increase in IGF-I receptor number without a change in IGF-I receptor mRNA levels, a decrease in IGF-I mRNA and IGF-I protein levels, a decrease in growth hormone (GH) receptor mRNA abundance and receptor binding. There was also a decrease in IGF binding protein-2, -3 and -5 mRNA levels together with a fall in protein products. Since this unilateral ATN model excludes the influence of uremia and reduced nutritional intake, we surmised that these changes reflect a direct response to injury. Next, because of the reduced GH receptor binding noted above and the reported decrease in epidermal growth factor (EGF) expression in ATN, we tested the thesis that the low kidney IGF-I mRNA levels in ATN are partly due to a relative or absolute deficiency of these hormones. Administration of EGF or GH promptly increased ATN kidney IGF-I mRNA levels to control kidney values, lending support to the thesis. The response to EGF also suggests that the salutary effect of EGF treatment in ATN may partly be mediated by stimulating IGF-I production.
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U2 - 10.1038/ki.1996.51
DO - 10.1038/ki.1996.51
M3 - Article
C2 - 8821816
AN - SCOPUS:0030045642
SN - 0085-2538
VL - 49
SP - 344
EP - 354
JO - Kidney international
JF - Kidney international
IS - 2
ER -