Vascular endothelial growth factor and its receptors, flt-1 and flk-1, are expressed in normal pancreatic islets and throughout islet cell tumorigenesis

Molecular Endocrinology
G ChristoforiD Hanahan

Abstract

Endocrine organs, such as the pancreatic islets of Langerhans, contain permeable, fenestrated endothelium that allows direct access of endocrine cells to the blood stream. Factors that control differentiation and maintenance of this highly specialized endothelium remain unknown. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a multifunctional growth factor that may be responsible for the homeostasis of endocrine endothelium; it is a selective mitogen for endothelial cells and is able to permeabilize endothelium. We have analyzed the expression of VEGF mRNA and protein in pancreatic islet cells of normal mice and during the different stages of tumor progression in a transgenic mouse model of beta-cell carcinogenesis. The 120-amino acid and the 164-amino acid isoforms of VEGF are expressed in normal islets of Langerhans and are moderately up-regulated during the stages of tumor development. Two high-affinity receptors for VEGF, flt-1 and flk-1, are expressed by endothelial cells both in normal islets and in the stages of tumorigenesis; these receptors are not up-regulated during this process. Our data raise the possibility that VEGF is involved in the maintenance of permeable endothelium in islets of Langerhans, an observation that...Continue Reading

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