The insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and insulin-like growth factor binding proteins (IGFBPs), which regulate IGF activity, play a fundamental role in renal cell proliferation and differentiation. The thyroid hormone is considered to be required for kidney development; excess induces local hypertrophy and hyperplasia. The aim of the present study was to investigate the possible involvement of the IGF/IGFBP system in thyroid hormone-induced renal growth during the development of the rat. Our results show that thyroid hormone withdrawal by 6-propyl-2-thiouracil (PTU)-treatment of rats at all ages had no effect on renal IGFBP-4 mRNA levels, whereas the abundance of the serum protein was decreased compared to controls. Intraperitoneal triiodothyronine (T3) administration to hypothyroid rats resulted in renal hypertrophy associated with a significant upregulation of IGFBP-4 expression with increased levels of renal IGFBP-4 mRNA and serum protein. T3-induced upregulation of IGFBP-4 expression suggests the involvement of the local IGF/IGFBP system in T3-induced renal hypertrophy.
Key words:
Triiodothyronine - IGFBP-4 - Kidney Hypertrophy
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