title: Insulin-like growth factor-I as a promoting factor for cerebellar Purkinje cell development.
abstract: In the mammalian CNS, the peptide hormone insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) is synthesized in a certain subset of neurons and, it has been suggested, serves as a local neurotrophic factor. A postnatal increase in the expression of IGF-I and the type-1 IGF receptors (IGFR1) in the cerebellar cortex and its related brain regions indicates that developing cerebellar Purkinje cells (PC) may be an important target of IGF-I. However, little is known about how IGF-I influences PC development. Here we addressed this question, using a reduced environment of cerebellar neuron culture derived from perinatal mice. IGF-I exogenously applied at a physiological concentration (10 nm) greatly promoted the dendritic growth and survival of the PCs. By contrast, IGF-I only slightly promoted the somatic growth and little affected the maturation of the electrophysiological excitability of the PCs. The closely related hormone insulin had weaker promoting effects than did IGF-I. IGF-I appeared to at least bind to IGFR1 and to up-regulate the signalling pathways involving the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3-K), mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), p38 kinase (p38K), and an unknown signalling molecule(s). These signalling pathways may be coupled to the individual aspects of PC development in different manners and this may explain the difference in effects of IGF-I among these aspects. These findings suggest that IGF-I serves as a promoting factor for PC development, particularly postnatal survival and dendritic growth.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cellular Neurophysiology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-8640, Japan.
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fukudome
authors.forename: Toshihide
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tabata
authors.forename: Tomoko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miyoshi
authors.forename: Shigeki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Haruki
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Araishi
authors.forename: Satsuki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sawada
authors.forename: Masanobu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kano
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000187:drug effects; D000818:Animals; D002450:Cell Communication / Q000187:drug effects; D048429:Cell Size / Q000187:drug effects; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000187:drug effects; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003712:Dendrites / Q000187:drug effects; D005260:Female; D007334:Insulin-Like Growth Factor I / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D009457:Neuroglia / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology; D018408:Patch-Clamp Techniques; D011247:Pregnancy; D011689:Purkinje Cells / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D007334:Insulin-Like Growth Factor I