Population
Porcine vascular smooth muscle cells (SMC) and human fibroblast cultures
Comparison
Treatment with insulin, IGF-I, IGF-II… vs Untreated cells or cells treated with IGF-I alone
Design
Preclinical
Authors
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Does not inform clinical vascular management; hypothesis-generating for IGFBP-4 fragmentation in SMC growth and requires human validation.
Vascular smooth muscle cells secrete IGFBP-2 and IGFBP-4, which are differentially regulated by insulin and IGF-I, with IGF-I inducing fragmentation of IGFBP-4 to modulate its bioactivity.
Cohick et al. (1993) studied this question.