Effect of Prolonged Uremia on Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I Receptor Autophosphorylation and Tyrosine Kinase Activity in Kidney and Muscle

Autor: Michael M. Friedlaender, Ralph Rabkin, Tanny Tsao, Yu Chen, Fernando C. Fervenza
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Nephron Experimental Nephrology. 10:285-292
ISSN: 1660-2129
DOI: 10.1159/000063703
Popis: Recently, based on a study in rats with chronic renal failure (CRF), it has been suggested that IGF-I resistance in uremia may be caused in part by defective IGF-I receptor autophosphorylation and tyrosine kinase activity. Thus if such a defect were to develop in prolonged acute renal failure (ARF), this may explain why IGF-I therapy, effective in rats, has failed to promote recovery from ARF in patients. Accordingly, we examined IGF-I receptor function in rats with uremia of increasing duration and in pair-fed sham-operated controls. After 6 days of prolonged ARF, kidney IGF-I receptor binding increased twofold, while IGF-I stimulated receptor phosphorylation and tyrosine kinase activity were unchanged. Muscle receptor binding, autophosphorylation and tyrosin kinase activity were similar to control values after 6 or even 21 days of uremia. Taking all these findings together it appears that IGF-I resistance in uremia cannot be attributed to a receptor defect. This in turn argues against altered receptor function as a cause of the failure of IGF-I to modify clinical ARF.
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