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Endocrinology Vol. 138, No. 2 851-854
Copyright © 1997 by The Endocrine Society

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Co-Expression of Bovine Growth Hormone (GH) and Human GH Antagonist Genes in Transgenic Mice

Nian-yi Chen, Wen Y. Chen, Liliane J. Striker, Gary E. Striker and John J. Kopchick

Edison Biotechnology Institute, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, and Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701; and Renal Cell Biology Section, Metabolic Diseases Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: John J. Kopchick, Ph.D., Ohio University, Edison Biotechnology Institute, Konneker Research Lab, The Ridges, Athens, Ohio 47501.


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Bovine growth hormone (bGH) transgenic (Tg) mice have been shown to possess enhanced growth phenotypes and exhibit severe glomerulosclerosis. One amino acid substitution in GH, i.e. G119R in bGH or G120R in human (h) GH, results in GH antagonists (GHAs). GHA-Tg mice exhibit dwarf phenotypes and normal kidneys. In order to investigate the possibility of GHAs as pharmaceutical agents for the treatment of human diseases with excessive GH levels, we cross bred mice that express bGH with those that express hGHA. Double positive Tg mice were identified that express both genes although at different levels. Kidney histological studies revealed that the double positive Tg mice with high GHA/GH expression ratios possessed normal or near normal kidneys, whereas those with low GHA/GH ratios exhibited glomerulosclerosis similar to GH-Tg mice. Thus, co-expression of GH and GHA genes in vivo results in animal phenotypes and kidney histopathologies which are a reflection of the relative expression levels of each gene.


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Received November 20, 1996.




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