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Polypeptide hormone receptors in vivo: demonstration of insulin binding to adrenal gland and gastrointestinal epithelium by quantitative radioautography

JJ Bergeron, R Rachubinski, N Searle, D Borts, R Sikstrom and BI Posner

A tissue-screening survey employing quantitative radioautography was carried out at 2 min after the intravascular injection of 125I-insulin into laboratory rats. The results revealed a substantial binding of insulin to cells forming the proximal convoluted tubule in kidney, hepatocytes of liver, acinar cells of the pancreas, parenchymal cells of the adrenal cortex and medulla, and epithelial cells of the gastrointestinal tract. Control experiments indicated that this binding was due to a specific interaction with the insulin receptor, except in the case of kidney where the binding was shown to be nonspecific. Although the major target for insulin action (liver) clearly demonstrated specific insulin binding, several other classical targets (adipocytes, skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle cells) showed no specific 125I-insulin binding and therefore indicated the limits of sensitivity of the in vivo radioautographic method. Nevertheless, the working hypothesis of a direct correlation of insulin receptor density with insulin action points to the hitherto unemphasized targets of pancreas, adrenal gland, and gastrointestinal tract as major sites of insulin action in the body.

Volume 28, Issue 8, pp. 824-835, 08/01/1980
Copyright © 1980 by The Histochemical Society


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