Insulin-like growth factors and their transporter proteins in the liver of rats with experimental diabetes, adenocarcinoma of the uterine corpus, and their combination

Aim. To investigate the content of insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-1, IGF-2, and their transporter proteins IGFBP-1 and IGFBP in the liver of rats with experimental diabetes, Guerin’s carcinoma, and their combination.Materials and methods. The experiment was carried out on 64 white outbred rats of both sexes, which were divided into 4 groups of 8 animals each: group 1 – intact animals, group 2 – animals with experimental diabetes, group 3 – animals with subcutaneously inoculated Guerin’s carcinoma, group 4 – animals with experimental diabetes and subcutaneously inoculated Guerin’s carcinoma. In the study, biochemical and statistical analyses and enzyme immunoassays were performed.Results. In the liver of the outbred rats, sex specificity in the content of insulin-like growth factors and IGFBP-1 was established: the levels of IGF-1, IGF-2, and IGFBP-1 in males were lower than in females. It was shown that the development of diabetes mellitus and the growth of Guerin’s carcinoma led to changes in the sex-specific components in the rat liver.Conclusion. The growth of Guerin’s carcinoma and the progression of diabetes mellitus cause multidirectional changes in IGF and IGFBP levels in the liver of females and unidirectional changes in the liver of males. Following the growth of Guerin’s carcinoma against the background of diabetes mellitus, sex-specific differences in the content of the studied parameters were minimized. It was shown that diabetes mellitus changed the metabolic profile of the liver in the animals of both sexes.