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. 1988 Nov;82(5):1546–1553. doi: 10.1172/JCI113764

Demonstration of the production and physiological role of insulin-like growth factor II in rat thyroid follicular cells in culture.

R M Maciel 1, A C Moses 1, G Villone 1, D Tramontano 1, S H Ingbar 1
PMCID: PMC442721  PMID: 2903179

Abstract

Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) are potent mitogens for FRTL5 rat thyroid follicular cells. IGFs also synergize the independent mitogenic effects of thyrotropin-stimulating hormone (TSH) and other agents that increase intracellular AMP concentration. We examined whether FRTL5 cells and M12 cells, a TSH-independent mutant cell line derived therefrom, secrete IGF that regulates the growth of rat thyroid follicular cells. Immunoreactive IGF-II, but not IGF-I, was found in media conditioned by FRTL5 cells; media from M12 cells contained four- to fivefold higher concentrations. Medium conditioned by FRTL5 and M12 both stimulated [3H]thymidine incorporation in FRTL5 and amplified the mitogenic effects of TSH. M12-conditioned medium was more potent than FRTL5-conditioned medium. Sm-1.2, a monoclonal antibody that recognizes IGF-I and IGF-II but not insulin, inhibited basal DNA synthesis in FRTL5 and M12 cells and the mitogenic effects in FRTL5 of agents that are synergized by IGF, such as TSH, forskolin, Bt2cAMP, and Graves'-IgG. Sm-1.2 did not inhibit the mitogenic response to insulin. Thus, rat insulin-like growth factor II (rIGF-II) is an autocrine growth factor that regulates FRTL5 growth, in part by amplifying the mitogenic response to TSH. Results with M12 cells raise the possibility that endogenous rIGF-II may partially mediate the TSH-independent growth of these cells.

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