RGD Reference Report - Locally produced insulin-like growth factor-1 by orbital fibroblasts as implicative pathogenic factor rather than systemically circulated IGF-1 for patients with thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy.

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Locally produced insulin-like growth factor-1 by orbital fibroblasts as implicative pathogenic factor rather than systemically circulated IGF-1 for patients with thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy.
Authors:	Song, D Wang, R Zhong, Y Li, W Li, H Dong, F
Citation:	Song D, etal., Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2012 Mar;250(3):433-40. doi: 10.1007/s00417-011-1876-5. Epub 2011 Dec 9.
RGD ID:	8548854
Pubmed:	PMID:22159761 (View Abstract at PubMed)
DOI:	DOI:10.1007/s00417-011-1876-5 (Journal Full-text)
BACKGROUND: To determine the correlation between clinical activity scores (CAS) of thyroid-associated ophthalmology (TAO) patients and their locally produced and/or systemically circulating insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), and to assess the possible pathogenic role of IGF-1 in TAO. METHODS: Eighteen patients with TAO, and 16 age- and gender-matched controls were included in the present study. Among them, orbital tissue surgically collected from five TAO patients and five healthy controls was used for orbital fibroblasts (OFs) culture and in vitro study. Total and free IGF-1 in serum levels were determined by an ELISA kit for all the participants in this study. The IGF-1 concentration in culture media of OFs was determined using a noncompetitive time-resolved radioimmunoassay kit. The effect of octreotide (OCT), a somatostatin analog, on proliferation of OFs was assessed using the MTT assay. IGF-1 mRNA levels were measured by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR). RESULTS: Cultured OFs from both TAO patients and normal donors secreted IGF-1, and the secretion continued over a 72 hour period in vitro. IGF-1 secretion by OFs was elevated in the TAO group. Both the elevated secretion of IGF-1 and proliferation of OFs from TAO patients could be inhibited by OCT. Result of quantitative PCR showed that IGF-1 mRNA expression by OFs in TAO patients was up-regulated more than 2-fold compared with normal controls (P < 0.05), and this up-regulation was prevented by OCT treatment. Total and free serum IGF-1 levels in TAO patients were similar to those of normal controls. However, the IGF-1 level in cultured medium of OFs from TAO patients, but not serum levels of IGF-1, was positively correlated with CAS (r = 0.97, P = 0.017). CONCLUSIONS: Local production of IGF-1 by cultured OFs may be positively correlated with CAS, whereas systemically circulating IGF-1 may remain unchanged in TAO patients. Thus, locally produced IGF-1 may develop a role in the pathogenesis of TAO in an autocrine or paracrine fashion. The inhibitory effect of OCT on proliferating and IGF-1 mRNA levels of cultured OFs from TAO patients may be used as the mechanistic explanation for somatostatin analog as a valuable option in the treatment of TAO.

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Graves ophthalmopathy		IEP		8548854	mRNA more ...	RGD
Graves ophthalmopathy		ISO	IGF1 (Homo sapiens)	8548854; 8548854	mRNA more ...	RGD

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Igf1 (insulin-like growth factor 1)

Genes (Mus musculus)

Igf1 (insulin-like growth factor 1)

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IGF1 (insulin like growth factor 1)

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Locally produced insulin-like growth factor-1 by orbital fibroblasts as implicative pathogenic factor rather than systemically circulated IGF-1 for patients with thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy.