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The roles of diabetes mellitus, insulin-like growth factor I and insulin in vascular smooth muscle proliferation in vivo were studied. Proliferation was induced by endothelial injury (balloon catheterization) of rat aorta, and was measured as 3H-thymidine incorporation into DNA. Levels of insulin-like growth factor I mRNA and insulin-like growth factor I receptor mRNA were measured with a solution hybridization assay. The increase in DNA synthesis was most pronounced 2 days after injury in both normal and diabetic rats and declined thereafter, but DNA synthesis in aortas from diabetic rats was lower throughout the time period studied. Levels of insulin-like growth factor I mRNA and the receptor mRNA were both increased in balloon catheterized aortas, and time-course studies showed an increase in receptor mRNA prior to the increase in insulin-like growth factor I mRNA. Diabetic rats were treated with equimolar concentrations of insulin (35 nmol/day) or insulin-like growth factor I (31 nmol/day) for 5 days. Insulin-like growth factor I increased DNA synthesis in injured aortas 2 days after injury without improving blood glucose, whereas the effect of insulin was associated with a decrease in blood glucose levels. In conclusion, vascular smooth muscle proliferation is impaired by diabetes and stimulated by insulin treatment. Insulin-like growth factor I infusion stimulates vascular smooth muscle proliferation without affecting bloo glucose, and gene expressions of insulin-like growth factor I and its receptor are increased in proliferating vascular smooth muscle, indicating that insulin-like growth factor I is involved in vascular smooth muscle proliferation in vivo.
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Bornfeldt, K.E., Arnqvist, H.J. & Capron, L. In vivo proliferation of rat vascular smooth muscle in relation to diabetes mellitus insulin-like growth factor I and insulin. Diabetologia 35, 104–108 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00402540
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