Thyroid hormone regulates rat pituitary insulin-like growth factor-I receptors.

As we previously obtained evidence that insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) inhibits T3-induced GH secretion and GH mRNA expression without affecting basal GH secretion in thyroidectomized rat pituitary cells grown in hypothyroid medium, we examined changes in IGF-I receptors in the pituitary gland, as induced by thyroid hormone. Thyroidectomized rats and a quantitative receptor autoradiographic method were used. The density of [125I]IGF-I-binding sites in the anterior pituitary gland decreased 4 weeks after thyroidectomy; that is a significant decrease in the number of the receptors compared to findings in control rats (P less than 0.01). The affinity (Kd) remained unchanged. There were no changes in binding parameters in the ventroposterior thalamic nucleus in the brain, renal cortex, and liver parenchyma. The ip administration of T4 once a day (48 micrograms/kg) for 1-2 weeks compensated for the decrease in the binding capacity of [125I]IGF-I-binding sites to that of the control values (P less than 0.01). We propose that IGF-I receptors in the anterior pituitary gland may be regulated by thyroid hormone.

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