Evidence that the mammary fat pad mediates the action of growth hormone in mammary gland development

Endocrinology
P D WaldenD L Kleinberg

Abstract

Recent evidence from our laboratory suggests that GH and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) mediate glandular mammary development together with estrogen. It has also been well established that both stromal and epithelial elements must interact for mammary glandular development to occur. To determine whether the effect of GH is mediated by the stromal or epithelial tissue, we set up the following experiment. Bovine GH (bGH; 100 microg) or BSA (as a control), without or with estradiol (E2), was injected i.p. into sexually immature female rats that were hypophysectomized and oophorectomized. Mammary glands and subscapular fat pads were removed from the animals. The mammary glands were divided into two parts: a gland-free fat pad and remaining glandular tissue. The end point of bGH activity was induction of IGF-I messenger RNA (mRNA). This was determined quantitatively by solution hybridization and also by RT-PCR. We found that the effects of GH on stimulation of IGF-I mRNA in the gland-free mammary fat pad and the remainder of the mammary gland were similar (3.6- vs. 3.9-fold, respectively; P < 0.001). In both sorts of mammary tissue, bGH was found to synergize with E2 in the induction of IGF-I mRNA (5.8- vs. 5.3-fold; P < 0.001...Continue Reading

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