Article
Expression of insulin-like growth factor I stimulates normal somatic growth in growth hormone-deficient transgenic mice.
Endocrinology - 1 Sept 1990
Behringer R R, Lewin T M, Quaife C J, Palmiter R D, Brinster R L, D'Ercole A J
Abstract excerpt
A line of transgenic mice expressing insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) under the control of the mouse metallothionien-1 promoter was crossed to a line of dwarf transgenic mice lacking GH expressing cells that were genetically ablated by diphtheria toxin expression. Mice generated from this cross that carry both transgenes express IGF-I in the absence of GH. These mice grew larger than their GH-deficient...
Topics
- Aging
- Animals
- Body Weight
- Bone Development
- Brain
- Diphtheria Toxin
- Female
- Gene Expression
- Genotype
- Growth
- Growth Hormone
- Insulin-Like Growth Factor I
