Tissue concentrations of somatomedin C: further evidence for multiple sites of synthesis and paracrine or autocrine mechanisms of action - PubMed (original) (raw)

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Tissue concentrations of somatomedin C: further evidence for multiple sites of synthesis and paracrine or autocrine mechanisms of action

A J D'Ercole et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1984 Feb.

Abstract

We have validated a method for extracting and measuring the tissue content of somatomedin C (Sm-C)/insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I), a growth-hormone-dependent, growth-promoting peptide. The Sm-C content of tissue extracts was strongly growth-hormone dependent because most of the tissues studied from hypophysectomized rats contained significantly less Sm-C than normal tissues. The intraperitoneal administration of ovine growth hormone (oGH) to hypophysectomized rats caused tissue extractable Sm-C to increase in kidney, liver, lung, heart, and testes. Tissue Sm-C responses to oGH were maximal after 12 hr, 6 hr before the maximal increment in serum. In liver and lung, the tissue Sm-C response to various doses of oGH fit linear regression models, and the doses of oGH needed to increase the Sm-C are in the range of those required to increase protein synthesis. Although these results do not exclude the possibility that the somatomedins act by hormone-like endocrine mechanisms, they add support to the concept that these peptides act through autocrine or paracrine mechanisms, being produced at multiple sites and acting at or near their sites of production.

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