Molecular Endocrinology, Vol 5, 1799-1805, Copyright © 1991 by Endocrine Society

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Insulin-like growth factor receptor gene expression in the rat ovary: divergent regulation of distinct receptor species

ER Hernandez, A Hurwitz, L Botero, E Ricciarelli, H Werner, CT Roberts Jr, D LeRoith and EY Adashi
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201.

The intraovarian insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system constitutes a triad composed of ligands, receptors, and binding proteins. Although conventional radioligand receptor assays have documented the presence of specific receptors for insulin and insulin-like peptides in some rat somatic ovarian cell types, the exact cellular localization and hormonal regulation of the receptors in question remain matters of inquiry. To reevaluate the very presence, cellular localization, and hormonal regulation of the IGF receptor gene family in the rat ovary, solution hybridization/RNase protection assays were used wherein ovarian total RNA (20 micrograms) from immature (21-23 days old) rats was hybridized with 32P-labeled type I IGF receptor, type II IGF/mannose-6-phosphate receptor, and insulin receptor riboprobes. Single protected fragments 261 (type I IGF receptor), 500 (type II IGF/mannose-6-phosphate receptor), and 478 (insulin receptor) bases long were evident in whole ovary, granulosa, and theca-interstitial cells. Hypophysectomy of immature rats led to significant (P less than 0.05) albeit variable decrements in the relative (densitometrically quantified) ovarian abundance of transcripts corresponding to the type I IGF (but not insulin or type II IGF/mannose-6-phosphate) receptor. Treatment of immature hypophysectomized rats with FSH (10 micrograms/rat.day x 2.5 days) resulted in a significant (P less than 0.05) increase (4-fold) in transcripts corresponding to the type I IGF receptor in both whole ovarian material and freshly isolated granulosa cells. Similar (3.7-fold) increments (P less than 0.05) were noted after treatment with a diethylstilbestrol-containing sc silastic implant applied for a total of 5 days.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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