Population
Pituitary-deficient young adult male rats (liver tissue)
Comparison
Single systemic growth hormone (GH) injection vs Absence of hormone (baseline)
Design
Preclinical
Follow-up
60 min
Key result
Systemic GH treatment caused an approximately 15-fold increase in transcription from each IGF-I promoter within 60 minutes, activating transcription by distinct promoter-specific mechanisms.
Authors
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Should not change clinical GH use; hypothesis-generating for IGF-I promoter mechanisms in humans.
Effect estimate: 15-fold increase
Growth hormone induces rapid changes in hepatic chromatin at the IGF-I locus, activating transcription via distinct promoter-specific mechanisms.
Chia et al. (2010) studied Pituitary deficiency. Systemic GH injection vs. Absence of hormone was evaluated on Transcription from each IGF-I promoter (15-fold increase). Systemic GH treatment caused an approximately 15-fold increase in transcription from each IGF-I promoter within 60 minutes, activating transcription by distinct promoter-specific mechanisms.
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