Article
Insulinlike Growth Factor 1 Gene Variation in Vertebrates.
Endocrinology - 1 Jun 2018
Rotwein Peter
Abstract excerpt
IGF1-a small, single-chain, secreted peptide in mammals-is essential for normal somatic growth and is involved in a variety of other physiological and pathophysiological processes. IGF1 expression appears to be controlled by several different signaling mechanisms in mammals, with GH playing a key role by activating an inducible transcriptional pathway via the Jak2 protein kinase and the Stat5b transcription...
Topics
- Animals
- Evolution, Molecular
- Exons
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Insulin-Like Growth Factor I
- Introns
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Vertebrates
