Relationship Between Serum Thyroid Hormone Levels and IGF-I/IGFBPs Autocrine/Paracrine Disturbance in Nephrotic Rats / 中国医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the effects of malnutrition,nephrosis itself and glucocorticoid therapy on serum thyroid hormone,illustrate the relationship between serum thyroid hormone and renal IGF-I/IGFBPs autocrine/paracrine in nephrotic rats.Methods Twenty-four male Sprague-Dawley(SD) rats were randomly divided into control,pair-fed,doxorubicin(5mg/kg)-induced nephrotic and dexamethasone treated nephrotic(des-treated) rats.Serum T 3,T 4 and GH were measured by RIA,renal GHR and IGF-I/IGFBPs mRNA were analyzed by radioreceptor assay and RT-PCR respectively.Results ⑴Serum thyroid hormone levels were decreased by degrees according normal rats,pair-fed rats,nephrotic rats and lowest in des-treated rats except for high serum T 4 in pair-fed rats showed increasing trendency.⑵Reduced serum thyroid hormone was parallel well with decreased renal GHR and IGFBP-2 mRNA,and correlated negatively with increased renal IGFBP-3 mRNA.⑶There was some significant correlation positively between nose-tail length or weight and serum thyroid hormone.Conclusions The hypothyroidism is a possible mechanism of IGFBPs autocrine/paracrine disorder and further growth retardation in nephrotic syndrome.