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Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 273: L1174-L1181, 1997;
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AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Vol 273, Issue 6 1174-L1181, Copyright © 1997 by American Physiological Society

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Perinatal expression of IGFBPs in rat lung and its hormonal regulation in fetal lung explants

J. K. van de Wetering, R. H. Elfring, M. A. Oosterlaken-Dijksterhuis, J. A. Mol, H. P. Haagsman and J. J. Batenburg
Laboratory of Veterinary Biochemistry, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

To gain more insight into the regulation of the expression of insulin-like growth factor (IGF) binding proteins (IGFBPs) in the lung, the developmental patterns of the abundance of the mRNAs encoding IGFBPs were measured in the perinatal rat lung and in explant cultures of fetal rat lung. In hormone-free explant cultures, the levels of the mRNAs encoding IGFBP-2 through -5 changed with a pattern similar to that occurring in vivo (although in the case of IGFBP-3 to -5 at a faster rate), indicating that the developmental regulation of the expression of these IGFBPs in perinatal lung is mimicked in the explants. For the IGFBP-6 mRNA level, the pattern in vitro differed from that in vivo. In the explant cultures, dexamethasone decreased the production of IGFBP-3 and -4 and decreased the abundance of the mRNAs encoding IGFBP-2 to -5 but increased the abundance of IGFBP-6 mRNA. These observations indicate that glucocorticoids may be involved in the developmental regulation of the expression of these components of the IGF system and that the IGF system may be involved in the physiological effects of glucocorticoids on lung development. No appreciable effects of 3,3',5-triiodothyronine on the expression of the IGFBPs were observed.


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