Expression of insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and IGF signaling: molecular complexity in uterine leiomyomas  

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Lan, Peng ; Yong, Wen ; Yulong, Han

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Fertility and Sterility (keterangan: ada di ClinicalKey) vol. 91 no. 06 (Jun. 2009), page 2664-2675 .
Topik: IGF-1; IGF-2; IGF pathway; tissue microarray; promoter; leiomyomas

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: F02.K.2009.02 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Objective To study whether dysregulation of insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and IGF signaling are common molecular changes in symptomatic leiomyomas (fibroids) and whether IGFs are associated with large fibroids. Design Examination of IGFs and IGF pathway genes in a large cohort of fibroids at transcriptional and translational levels. Mechanisms leading to alterations of IGFs and related genes were also analyzed. Setting University clinical research laboratory. Patient(s) Hysterectomies for symptomatic fibroids were collected: 180 cases from paraffin-embedded tissues and 50 cases from fresh-frozen tissues. Intervention(s) Tissue microarray and immunohistochemistry, DNA methylation analysis, reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction, and Western blot. Main Outcome Measurement(s) Transcription and translation analyses of IGF-1/2, p-AKT, p-S6K, and TSC1/2 in fibroids and matched myometrium. Result(s) Insulin-like growth factors and downstream effectors were dysregulated in approximately one third of fibroids. All except for IGF-2 seemed to be abnormally regulated at translation levels. Up-regulation of IGF-2 messenger RNAs was contributed by all four alternating slicing promoters. There was a positive correlation of IGF-1 and p-AKT over-expression with fibroid size. Insulin-like growth factor 1 but not IGF-2 levels directly correlated with activation of p-AKT and p-S6K. Conclusion(s) Altered expressions of IGFs and their related downstream proteins were found in one third of fibroids. Large fibroids show high levels of IGF-1 and p-AKT activity compared with small ones.

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