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  • Title: A novel role of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-I. Priming neutrophils for superoxide anion secretion.
    Author: Fu YK, Arkins S, Wang BS, Kelley KW.
    Journal: J Immunol; 1991 Mar 01; 146(5):1602-8. PubMed ID: 1847167.
    Abstract:
    Growth hormone (GH) and the GH-dependent growth promoting peptide, insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), are both potent signals for priming human and porcine polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) to secrete superoxide anion (O2-). PMA, opsonized-zymosan, or FMLP could all be used as triggering stimuli to demonstrate priming by GH or IGF-I. As positive controls, IFN-gamma and LPS also primed both human and porcine PMN for enhanced O2- release. However, only the LPS-mediated enhancement was inhibited by polymyxin B, which demonstrates that the priming induced by GH, IGF-I, or IFN-gamma was not caused by LPS contamination. Furthermore, a specific antibody to GH abrogated priming induced by this molecule. In contrast to IGF-I, the closely related molecule insulin was unable to prime PMN even at pharmacologic levels. Insulin, at pharmacologic levels, antagonized the priming mediated by IGF-I but had no effect on GH priming. A mAb directed against the human IGF-I receptor blocked the enhanced secretion of O2- by human PMN that was caused by IGF-I, but not GH, indicating that neutrophil priming induced by GH was not mediated by inducing extracellular release of IGF-I. However, priming PMN by both GH and IGF-I required de novo protein synthesis, because cycloheximide completely abrogated enhanced O2- secretion that was caused by these growth factors. These data show that a classic pituitary hormone (GH), as well as its widely recognized growth promoting peptide (IGF-I), are involved in regulating an important functional activity of both porcine and human PMN. Inasmuch as GH and IGF-I have recently been demonstrated to be synthesized by leukocytes, these data support the possibility that both of these proteins could act in a paracrine fashion as cytokines to prime PMN for an enhanced respiratory burst.
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