Insulin-like growth factor II induces DNA synthesis in fetal ventricular myocytes in vitro.

Insulin-like growth factor II (IGF2) belongs to a family of growth factors that includes insulin and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF1). Although the accumulating evidence indicates that IGF1 is involved in regulating proliferation of ventricular myocytes, the role of IGF2 is less clear. To gain more insight into the functions of IGF2, rat ventricular expression of IGF2 mRNA at four developmental stages was examined by Northern analysis. An abundant IGF2 mRNA of approximately 3.8 kb was detected in fetal ventricles. It was dramatically decreased in neonatal ventricles and became undetectable in juvenile and adult ventricles. Similar expression patterns of the mRNA encoding IGF1 receptor and IGF2 receptor were observed. Since the results of Northern analysis strongly suggest the importance of IGF2 in regulating proliferation of fetal rat ventricular myocytes, the effects of an exogenous IGF2 on DNA synthesis in cultured rat ventricular myocytes were determined. DNA synthesis, which was monitored by measuring 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU) and [3H]thymidine incorporation, was increased by twofold to threefold in IGF2-stimulated fetal ventricular myocytes, whereas no change in BrdU or [3H]thymidine incorporation was observed in neonatal ventricular myocytes. Instead, IGF2 seemed to induce hypertrophy in neonatal ventricular myocytes. An antisense oligonucleotide against rat IGF2 mRNA was able to significantly reduce BrdU incorporation, and this effect was quantitatively reversed by the addition of exogenous IGF2. Reversion by exogenous IGF2 was abolished by a monoclonal antibody against IGF1 receptor. In conclusion, our results suggest that IGF2 directly regulates proliferation of fetal rat ventricular myocytes in a paracrine/autocrine fashion.

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