Insulin like growth factor
Improvement of developmental competence of aged porcine oocytes by means of the synergistic effect of insulin like growth factor 1 (IGF 1) and epidermal growth factor (EGF)
... ABSTRACT: There is a constant increase in demand for large numbers of high-quality oocytes of domestic mam- mals for various reproductive biotechnologies. Prolonged in vitro culture represents one of the many possible ...
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Human conditions of insulin like growth factor I (IGF I) deficiency
... Consistently, a large number of studies have previously suggested that the IGF system is involved in mammalian reproductive functions [108,126,127]. First, it has been emphasized the importance of insulin receptor ...
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Ovine placental lactogen and insulin like growth factor I : a study of their biological actions and potential to enhance animal production : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Animal Science at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... production and postnatal growth in sheep and cattle. In sheep, hepatic GHRs appear within days of birth and receptor concentrations reach adult values very rapidly (Gluckman et al. 1 983). Such a finding is ...
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Insulin like growth factors and insulin like growth factor binding proteins in mammary gland function
... most abundant IGFBP in the mouse mammary gland is IGFBP-5, expression of which is low during pregnancy and lactation but dramatically increases at involution (unpublished observations). This suggests that IGFBPs act ...
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Acute effects of physical exercise on the serum insulin like growth factor system in women with fibromyalgia
... exercise. Growth hormone has been of special interest in research of FM, due to documented disturbance in the pituitary growth hormone axis in FM, especially in persons with severe symptoms [8, ...9]. ...
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Insulin like growth factor 1, insulin like growth factor binding protein 3 and lobule type in the Nurses' Health Study II
... Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study among 472 women in the NHSII who were diagnosed with biopsy-confirmed proliferative BBD between 1991 and 2002 and provided blood samples between 1996 and 1999. A pathologist, ...
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Effects of insulin like growth factor I on glucose tolerance, insulin levels, and insulin secretion
... to insulin. The lowered area under the insulin curve during oGTT and MTT as a result of the administration of rhIGF-I were related to the fasting insulin levels during saline infusion (oGTT: r = ...
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Hypoglycemic effect of insulin like growth factor 1 in mice lacking insulin receptors
... associated with an increase in the amount of phosphatidylino- sitol (PI)-3-kinase coimmunoprecipitated by antiphosphoty- rosine antibodies in skeletal muscle and liver. This effect is consistent with the possibility that ...
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Adult growth hormone deficiency treatment with a combination of growth hormone and insulin like growth factor 1 resulting in elevated sustainable insulin like growth factor 1 and insulin like growth factor binding protein 3 plasma levels: a case report
... Adult Growth hormone Deficiency is a well known phenomenon effecting both males and ...Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency is marked by a number of neuropsychiatric, cognitive performance, cardiac, metabolic, ...
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Changes in pain and insulin like growth factor 1 in fibromyalgia during exercise: the involvement of cerebrospinal inflammatory factors and neuropeptides
... [47]. A possible interpretation of our data is that exer- cise-induced peaks of IGF-1 combined with high chronic levels of CSF SP may lead to long-term adaptation to tol- erate physical strain. Thus, IGF-1 may promote ...
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Posttranslational regulation of insulin like growth factor binding protein 4 in normal and transformed human fibroblasts Insulin like growth factor dependence and biological studies
... Insulin-like growth factor binding protein-4 (IGFBP-4) is a 24-26-kD protein expressed by a variety of cell types in vivo and in ...nM insulin-like growth factor II ...
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Insulin like growth factor binding proteins of teleost fishes
... (when distinguished) detected from early stages (i.e., myogenic progenitor cells) through to fully differentiated myotubes (57, 110, 111). In Atlantic salmon, both igfbp-5a (formerly: igfbp5.1) and igfbp-5b (formerly: ...
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Adipogenesis in fish
... recent study, Landgraf and collaborators also overfed zebrafish with either a normal-fat diet (NFD) of 60 mg Artemia or an isocaloric high-fat diet (HFD) for 8 weeks. They reported that both diets increased body weight ...
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bovine colostrum – the promising nutraceutical
... natural growth factors in high ...promote growth and maturation of various cell types and ...peptide growth factor constituents of colostrum and milk are: epidermal growth factor ...
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Insulin like growth factor 1 deficiency and metabolic syndrome
... Insulin‑like growth factor‑1 metabolic effects At a first glance, IGF-1 has historical fame for being a growth and differentiation factor, however, a number of ...
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Insulin like growth factor axis in pregnancies affected by fetal growth disorders
... fetal growth and programming is supported by animal studies where IGF1 knockout mice not only had a reduced birth- weight but also continued to weigh less throughout their lives ...
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Identification and characterization of a parasympathetic neurotrophic factor
... As noted in the introduction the approach to the identification of new neurotrophic molecules has recently seen some changes. The tedious and often unrewarding search for biologically relevant molecules in tissue ...
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Reconstruction of the insulin like signalling pathway of Haemonchus contortus
... the insulin-like peptide (ins-1), phosphoinosi- tide 3-kinase (age-1/pi3k), heat-shock factor (hsf-1) and serine/threonine phosphatase (pptr-1), each have two or three isoforms in ...the ...
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Muscle growth and flesh quality of farmed Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) in relation to season of harvest
... of growth (Rowlerson et ...1998). Growth of the fast muscle involves the hypertrophy of the embryonic fibres until around 150 degree days (10 mm LS) after which additional myotubes are formed (Galloway et ...
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Statins inhibit insulin-like growth factor action in first trimester placenta by altering insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor glycosylation
... 2 Insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (IGF1R) glycosylation in the human placenta is reduced by 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl co-enzyme A [HMG-CoA] reductase ...
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