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Insulin-like growth factor and fibroblast growth factor expression profiles in growth-restricted fetal sheep pancreas.


ABSTRACT: Placental insufficiency results in intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), impaired fetal insulin secretion and less fetal pancreatic ?-cell mass, partly due to lower ?-cell proliferation rates. Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) regulate fetal ?-cell proliferation and pancreas development, along with transcription factors, such as pancreatic and duodenal homeobox 1 (PDX-1). We determined expression levels for these growth factors, their receptors and IGF binding proteins in ovine fetal pancreas and isolated islets. In the IUGR pancreas, relative mRNA expression levels of IGF-I, PDX-1, FGF7 and FGFR2IIIb were 64% (P < 0.01), 76% (P < 0.05), 76% (P < 0.05) and 52% (P < 0.01) lower, respectively, compared with control fetuses. Conversely, insulin-like growth factor binding protein 2 (IGFBP-2) mRNA and protein concentrations were 2.25- and 1.2-fold greater (P < 0.05) in the IUGR pancreas compared with controls. In isolated islets from IUGR fetuses, IGF-II and IGFBP-2 mRNA concentrations were 1.5- and 3.7-fold greater (P < 0.05), and insulin mRNA was 56% less (P < 0.05) than control islets. The growth factor expression profiles for IGF and FGF signaling pathways indicate that declines in ?-cell mass are due to decreased growth factor signals for both pancreatic progenitor epithelial cell and mature ?-cell replication.

SUBMITTER: Chen X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3404611 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Insulin-like growth factor and fibroblast growth factor expression profiles in growth-restricted fetal sheep pancreas.

Chen Xiaochuan X   Rozance Paul J PJ   Hay William W WW   Limesand Sean W SW  

Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) 20120510 5


Placental insufficiency results in intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), impaired fetal insulin secretion and less fetal pancreatic β-cell mass, partly due to lower β-cell proliferation rates. Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) regulate fetal β-cell proliferation and pancreas development, along with transcription factors, such as pancreatic and duodenal homeobox 1 (PDX-1). We determined expression levels for these growth factors, their receptors and IGF bin  ...[more]

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