Reduced expression of the growth hormone and type 1 insulin-like growth factor receptors in human somatotroph tumours and an analysis of possible mutations of the growth hormone receptor

Clinical Endocrinology
Blerina KolaA B Grossman

Abstract

Clinical acromegaly is characterized by elevated GH secretion in the presence of high circulating IGF-I levels. We hypothesized that the physiological IGF-I/GH negative feedback loop may be reset in somatotroph adenomas, specifically in terms of the level of expression of these receptors or mutations of the GH receptor (GH-R) in such tumours. We therefore investigated the full coding sequence of the GH-R in a series of somatotroph and other pituitary adenomas. We also investigated the mRNA expression of these putative feedback receptors in a series of pituitary adenomas and normal pituitary tissue, and their protein expression by immunostaining. Real-time RT-PCR assay was used for the quantification of the type 1 IGF receptor (IGF-R) and GH receptor (GH-R) mRNA, and sequence analysis was performed on the coding region of the GH-R gene. No somatic mutations of the GH-R mRNA were detected in 18 GH-secreting tumours or two nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas (NFPAs). However, the levels of GH-R mRNA were significantly lower in both somatotroph tumours and NFPAs compared to the normal pituitary (P < 0.05 for both). Immunostaining for GH-R also showed significantly less GH-R expression in somatotroph adenomas compared to normal pituit...Continue Reading

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