Hypertrophy of cultured adult rat ventricular cardiomyocytes induced by antibodies against the insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I or the IGF-I receptor is IGF-II-dependent

Chih Yang Huang, Ling Yang Hao, Dennis E. Buetow

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Abstract

Antibodies against the insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) or the IGF-I receptor (IGF-IR) directly initiate a rapid (within 6 h) hypertrophy of isolated adult rat ventricular cardiomyocytes cultured in the absence of serum. Further, cardiomyocytes treated with either of these agonistic antibodies upregulate the expression of their genes for insulin-like growth factor-II (IGF-II) and the IGF-II receptor (IGF-IIR). Genistein, an inhibitor of the tyrosine kinase IGF-IR, also induces the cardiomyocytes to hypertrophy. Anti-IGF-II antibody inhibits the cardiomyocyte hypertrophy induced by anti-IGF-I and anti-IGF-IR antibodies or by genistein. Results are consistent with a model in which local production of IGF-II is upregulated when the IGF-IR signaling pathway is blocked and in which an IGF-II-mediated pathway, likely involving the IGF-IIR, then stimulates hypertrophy of the cardiomyocytes.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)65-72
Number of pages8
JournalMolecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Volume233
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002

Keywords

  • Adult cardiomyocytes
  • Antibody-stimulated hypertrophy
  • Genistein
  • Insulin-like growth factors
  • Receptors

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Molecular Biology
  • Clinical Biochemistry
  • Cell Biology

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