Suppression of uterine insulin-like growth factor binding protein 5 by estrogen is mediated in part by insulin-like growth factor I.

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    • H Huynh
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  • Published online on: February 1, 1998     https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.12.2.427
  • Pages: 427-459
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Abstract

Insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) is an important mediator of estradiol-induced uterine growth in vivo. Insulin-like growth factor binding proteins (IGFBPs) are known to regulate access of insulin-like growth factors to IGF receptors. In this report we demonstrate that the positive uterotrophic agent estradiol, suppresses expression of the IGFBP-5 gene in the uterus to less than 15% of control values, while oophorectomy results in uterine involution and is associated with a greater than 3-fold stimulation of uterine IGFBP-5 gene expression. Immunohistochemical studies show that in intact rat uterus, the luminal epithelial cells are weakly stained with IGFBP-5 antibodies. Following ovariectomy, IGFBP-5 is confined in the luminal epithelial layer and longidinal smooth muscle cells. Administration of estradiol to ovariectomized rats increases uterine weight and uterine IGF-I gene expression, while immunostaining of IGFBP-5 in the luminal epithelial cells and longidinal smooth muscle cells is almost extinguished. In vitro studies using primary uterine cells reveal that IGF-I increases thymidine incorporation and inhibits IGFBP-5 gene expression, whereas estradiol has no effect suggesting that in vivo estradiol-induced IGFBP-5 suppression is mediated through increased IGF-I production. Our results suggest that in vivo, the uterotrophic effects of estradiol are mediated at least in part by estradiol-stimulated uterine IGF-I expression which in turn inhibits IGFBP-5 expression, an action which would be expected to increase IGF bioactivity.

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Huynh H: Suppression of uterine insulin-like growth factor binding protein 5 by estrogen is mediated in part by insulin-like growth factor I.. Int J Oncol 12: 427-459, 1998
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Huynh, H. (1998). Suppression of uterine insulin-like growth factor binding protein 5 by estrogen is mediated in part by insulin-like growth factor I.. International Journal of Oncology, 12, 427-459. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.12.2.427
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Huynh, H."Suppression of uterine insulin-like growth factor binding protein 5 by estrogen is mediated in part by insulin-like growth factor I.". International Journal of Oncology 12.2 (1998): 427-459.
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Huynh, H."Suppression of uterine insulin-like growth factor binding protein 5 by estrogen is mediated in part by insulin-like growth factor I.". International Journal of Oncology 12, no. 2 (1998): 427-459. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.12.2.427