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Effects of insulin-like growth factor on nitrogen balance during hypoxic exposure

Dept of Respirology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

CORRESPONDENCE: K. Tatsumi, Dept of Respirology (B2), Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuou-ku, Chiba, 260-8670, Japan. Fax: 81 432262176. E-mail: tatsumi@med.m.chiba-u.ac.jp

Keywords: catabolism, hypoxia, insulin growth factor-1, nitrogen balance, total parenteral nutrition

Received: April 5, 2001
Accepted January 12, 2002

This study was supported by research grants to the Respiratory Failure Research Group from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan.

Acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) accompanied with hypoxaemia may induce net protein catabolism and hypoxaemia could be an important trigger of a systemic catabolic response. The aim of this study was to examine the anabolic effects of recombinant human insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) in rats exposed to hypoxia. Although acute hypoxia is usually accompanied with a decrease in dietary intake, the usual nitrogen intake was maintained in this study.

Sprague-Dawley rats were maintained by continuous infusion of solution for total parenteral nutrition for 6 days. The animals were then randomly assigned to a normoxic (N) or a hypoxic (H) group. During the last 3 days of the experiment N and H rats were randomised to receive either IGF-I or vehicle.

Exposure to hypoxia caused a decrease in body-weight gain accompanied by a negative nitrogen balance, which was mainly due to increased urinary nitrogen excretion. No effect of recombinant human IGF-I treatment on body weight was observed during exposure to hypoxia, although nitrogen balance normalised.

The co-infusion of recombinant human insulin-like growth factor-1 and total parenteral nutrition has a significant net anabolic effect, as demonstrated by nitrogen retention and reduction in urine protein excretion observed in rats. Insulin-like growth factor-1 may help to ameliorate the protein catabolism observed under hypoxic conditions.

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