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Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, INRA – SCRIBE, IFR 140, Campus Beaulieu, 35000 Rennes, France
1 Department of Fisheries Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Kurdestan, 416 Sanandaj, Iran
2 Departament de Fisiologia, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 645, E-08071 Barcelona, Spain
(Requests for offprints should be addressed to J-C Gabillard; Email: jean-charles.gabillard{at}rennes.inra.fr)
The GH/IGF system is a complex regulation network strongly dependent on nutrient availability. While the effect of starvation on the GH/IGF system has been extensively studied, the time course of events leading to the restoration of GH/IGF system activity after starvation is largely unknown. We, therefore, measured the plasma levels of GH, IGF-I and IGF-II and the expression of the GH/IGF system in liver and muscle. Starvation increased the plasma GH level and 1 day of refeeding completely restored it (1.10 ± 0.27 vs 1.12 ± 0.28 ng/ml). Thereafter, plasma GH continued to decrease until day 7 and returned to control values from day 15. Starvation decreased plasma IGF-I and IGF-II and refeeding raised plasma IGF-I only from day 4. In contrast, the plasma IGF-II level doubled after 1 day’s refeeding (26.5 ± 1.9 vs 44.0 ± 3.4 ng/ml; P < 0.01). Starved fish exhibited higher GH receptor (GHR)1 mRNA abundance in liver and muscle than in controls, whereas GHR2 mRNA abundance was increased only in muscle. In liver, 1 day of refeeding, decreased GHR1 (twofold), but increased GHR2 mRNA abundance (twofold). Thereafter, a progressive return to normal values was observed. Liver IGFBP-4 mRNA abundance was lowered in starved fish followed by a progressive restoration during refeeding. Starvation had no effect on liver IGFBP-2 and IGFBP-6 mRNA abundance, whereas refeeding provoked a peak of IGFBP-2 and IGFBP-6 expression at day 7. In muscle, starvation led to a decrease of the IGFBP-2 mRNA level, which was restored only from day 7. IGFBP-4 mRNA abundance in starved fish was lower than in the controls and refeeding led to a transient upregulation (sevenfold) of IGFBP-4 gene at day 1. IGF-I, IGFBP-5, and IGFBP-related protein 1 (rP1) expression profiles were similar, showing a decrease of expression after starvation, a first peak of expression at day 2, a second peak at day 7, and a return to normal value from day 15. Moreover, IGF-I, IGFBP-5, and IGFBP-rP1 mRNA abundance were positively correlated (r = 0.6–0.8; P < 0.0001). In conclusion, plasma IGF-I was restored later than plasma GH level, which suggests that plasma IGF-I levels cannot account for plasma GH changes. The coordinated regulation of IGF-I, IGFBP-5, and IGFBP-rP1 expression would be a signature for the resumption of myogenic activity.
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