Research progress on insulin like growth factor-1 and infectious diseases / 中国小儿急救医学

ABSTRACT

Insulin like growth factor-1(IGF-1) has been found to be a cell proliferation regulator that promotes cell differentiation and proliferation.In recent years, IGF-1 has been found to play an important role in infectious diseases, participating in the occurrence and development of a variety of infectious diseases.This review briefly summarized the research progress on IGF-1 in infectious diseases, providing new ideas for the application of IGF-1 in clinical diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases.