Abstract:
:Glucocorticoids are important immunosuppressive hormones; these steroids also inhibit somatic growth by decreased growth hormone (GH) secretion and induced protein catabolism. The ability of ghrelin, the endogenous ligand for the GHS-1a receptor, to increase body weight is attributed to a combination of enhanced food intake, increased gastric emptying and increased food assimilation, coupled with potent GH releasing activity. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the ability of a full-length, metabolically stabilized ghrelin agonist, BIM-28125, to reverse the dexamethasone-induced decrease of growth rate of prepubertal Sprague-Dawley male rats. Twenty-one days old rats were randomly assigned to two treatment groups. Beginning on day 23 of age, 16 animals were treated ip either with saline or DEX (40 microg/kg/day). On day 33 after birth, these two groups were further subdivided and treated sc with either vehicle or BIM-28125 (80 nmol/kg, t.i.d.). On day 47 after birth, rats were killed and trunk blood was collected for hormone determinations. DEX significantly reduced final body weight and nose-anal length; BIM-28125 increased linear growth in saline-treated rats and reversed growth inhibition in DEX-treated rats. The inhibitory effects of DEX on somatic growth was paralleled by decreased 24 h food intake (FI), decreased food efficiency (FE) and lower plasma IGF-1 levels versus vehicle-treated rats. BIM-28125 induced an increase of FI, FE and plasma IGF-1 in saline-treated rats, and reversed the inhibitory effects of DEX. These preclinical results leads to the conclusion that BIM-28125 may represent a good tool to reverse the catabolic effects induced by glucocorticoids.
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Pituitaryjournal_title
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Tulipano G,Taylor JE,Halem HA,Datta R,Dong JZ,Culler MD,Bianchi I,Cocchi D,Giustina Adoi
10.1007/s11102-007-0054-6subject
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2007-01-01 00:00:00pages
267-74issue
3eissn
1386-341Xissn
1573-7403journal_volume
10pub_type
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