AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 262, Issue 6 E956-E962, Copyright © 1992 by American Physiological Society

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Kidney IGF-I and renal hypertrophy in GH-deficient diabetic dwarf rats

A. Flyvbjerg, J. Frystyk, R. Osterby and H. Orskov
Institute of Experimental Clinical Research, University of Aarhus, Aarhus Kommunehospital, Denmark.

Insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) has been proposed as a renotropic factor in initial diabetic kidney growth. To examine the effects of an isolated growth hormone (GH) and IGF-I deficiency on diabetic renal hypertrophy, dwarf rats were made diabetic and studied over a period of 7 days. Diabetic dwarf rats treated with human GH (hGH) or insulin and diabetic rats with intact pituitary were used as controls. In diabetic control animals kidney weight had increased by day 2 (P less than 0.01), and the increase amounted to 27% after 7 days, whereas untreated diabetic dwarf rats had a slower and lesser degree of kidney weight increase, reaching significance on day 7 only, amounting to 8%. hGH administration in diabetic dwarf rats increased the kidney weight on day 7 when compared with untreated diabetic dwarf rats (P less than 0.05) and was 19% over that of insulin-treated diabetic dwarf rats. The glomerular volume had increased by 43% in untreated diabetic control rats at day 7, compared with a 29% increase in untreated diabetic dwarf rats (P less than 0.05). hGH administration in diabetic dwarf rats increased the glomerular volume by 46%, comparable to the increase seen in diabetic control animals. Kidney IGF-I was increased on day 2 by 51 and 46% in saline- and hGH-injected diabetic dwarf rats, respectively, but a significantly higher increase in kidney IGF-I amounting to 96% was seen in diabetic control rats.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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