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Insulin-like growth factor I in initial renal hypertrophy in potassium-depleted rats

A. Flyvbjerg, S. M. Marshall, J. Frystyk, R. Rasch, K. E. Bornfeldt, H. Arnqvist, P. K. Jensen, G. Pallesen and H. Orskov
Institute of Experimental Clinical Research, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

We investigated insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) in the kidney during the initial renal enlargement induced by dietary K depletion in rats. Kidney weight increase was significant after 3 days of K depletion and amounted to 29% after 7 days compared with pair-fed controls [839 +/- 34 vs. 648 +/- 17 mg (SE), P less than 0.01]. The kidney growth occurred despite almost complete arrest in body weight gain in K-depleted animals (8 +/- 3 vs. 34 +/- 4 g/7 days in controls, P less than 0.01). Whole kidney protein, RNA, and DNA estimations indicated that cellular hypertrophy during the first 4 days was followed by hyperplasia. Immunoassayable kidney IGF-I concentration increased by 106% (673 +/- 30 vs. 327 +/- 14 ng/g, P less than 0.01) in K-depleted animals 24 h after induction of K depletion, stayed elevated until day 4, and returned to control levels on day 7. After K depletion for 24 h, IGF-I immunostaining was markedly increased in the medullary parts of the collecting ducts from K-depleted animals, whereas kidney IGF-I gene expression (IGF-I mRNA) had decreased by 36%. The increase in total kidney IGF-I concentration and immunostainable IGF-I in collecting ducts in kidneys from K-depleted rats precedes the renal hypertrophy and thereby suggests a renotropic role for IGF-I. The increase in kidney IGF-I concentration is not associated with increased IGF-I mRNA levels, indicating that non-transcriptional mechanisms may be responsible for the renal IGF-I accumulation.

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