RADIOIMMUNOLOGICAL DETERMINATION OF INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTORS-I AND FACTORS-II IN NORMAL SUBJECTS AND IN PATIENTS WITH GROWTH DISORDERS AND EXTRA-PANCREATIC TUMOR HYPOGLYCEMIA
RADIOIMMUNOLOGICAL DETERMINATION OF INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTORS-I AND FACTORS-II IN NORMAL SUBJECTS AND IN PATIENTS WITH GROWTH DISORDERS AND EXTRA-PANCREATIC TUMOR HYPOGLYCEMIA
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DOI:
10.1172/jci110379
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
FROESCH, ER
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作者:
ZAPF, J;WALTER, H;FROESCH, ER
Serum levels of immunoreactive insulin-like growth factors (IGF) I and II were determined by a modified IGF I and a new IGF II radioimmunoassay in normal children and adults, and in patients with acromegaly, isolated growth hormone deficiency and extrapancreatic tumor hypoglycemia. Serum samples were gel filtered by a simple routine procedure at acidic pH to dissociate and separate IGF from the IGF carrier protein. Mean immunoreactive IGF I levels (.+-. SD; corrected for crossreactivity of IGF II) were 193 .+-. 58 ng/ml in normal adult subjects, 712 .+-. 245 ng/ml in acromegalic patients and 24 .+-. 14 ng/ml in patients with isolated growth hormone deficiency. The lack of growth hormone alone, irrespective of an otherwise normal hormonal status, appears to be responsible for the drastic decrease of IGF I levels. Oversecretion of growth hormone does not increase the levels of immunoreactive IGF II: mean levels (.+-. SD; corrected for crossreactivity of IGF I) in normal and acromegalic subjects are virtually identical (647 .+-. 126 and 641 .+-. 189 ng/ml, respectively). Apparently, normal growth hormone levels stimulate IGF II production already maximally. In growth hormone deficiency immunoreactive IGF II is significantly decreased (252 .+-. 99 ng/ml). Thus, IGF II, like IGF I, is growth hormone dependent. But in contrast to IGF I, the growth hormone dependence of IGF II seems to become apparent only at subnormal growth hormone levels. In normal children IGF I is age dependent: it is low in newborn cord sera (51 .+-. 20 ng/ml) and gradually rises into the adult range with increasing age. At the onset of and during puberty mean IGF I levels lie above prepubertal values. In contrast, IGF II levels in normal children are independent of age and pubertal stage beyond the 1st year of life, whereas newborns have significantly lower IGF II values. Hypoglycemia resulting from extrapancreatic tumors is not associated with increased immunoreactive IGF I or II levels. IGF I is decreased in most of the sera (mean level .+-. SD: 56 .+-. 39 ng/ml) whereas IGF II lies in the normal range (556 .+-. 195 ng/ml).