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Endocrinology Vol. 149, No. 12 5958-5962
Copyright © 2008 by The Endocrine Society

Expanding the Mind: Insulin-Like Growth Factor I and Brain Development

A. Joseph D'Ercole and Ping Ye

Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: A. Joseph D'Ercole, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, CB 7039, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7039. E-mail: ajd{at}med.unc.edu.

Signaling through the type 1 IGF receptor (IGF1R) after interaction with IGF-I is crucial to the normal brain development. Manipulations of the mouse genome leading to changes in the expression of IGF-I or IGF1R significantly alters brain growth, such that IGF-I overexpression leads to brain overgrowth, whereas null mutations in either IGF-I or the IGF1R result in brain growth retardation. IGF-I signaling stimulates the proliferation, survival, and differentiation of each of the major neural lineages, neurons, oligodendrocytes, and astrocytes, as well as possibly influencing neural stem cells. During embryonic life, IGF-I stimulates neuron progenitor proliferation, whereas later it promotes neuron survival, neuritic outgrowth, and synaptogenesis. IGF-I also stimulates oligodendrocyte progenitor proliferation although inhibiting apoptosis in oligodendrocyte lineage cells and stimulating myelin production. These pleiotropic IGF-I activities indicate that other factors provide instructive signals for specific cellular events and that IGF-I acts to facilitate them. Studies of the few humans with IGF-I and/or IGF1R gene mutations indicate that IGF-I serves a similar role in man.




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