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To understand the mechanism of muscle remodeling during Xenopus laevis metamorphosis, we examined the in vitro effect of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) on growth and differentiation of three different-fate myogenic cell populations: tadpole tail, tadpole dorsal, and young adult leg muscle. IGF-1 promoted growth and differentiation of both tail and leg myogenic cells only under conditions where these cells could proliferate. Inhibition of cell proliferation by DNA synthesis inhibitor cytosine arabinoside completely canceled the IGF-1’s cell differentiation promotion, suggesting the possibility that IGF-1’s differentiation-promotion effect is an indirect effect via IGF-1’s cell proliferation promotion. IGF-1 promoted differentiation dose dependently with maximum effect at 100–500 ng/ml. RT-PCR analysis revealed the upregulation (11-fold) of ifg1 mRNA expression in developing limbs, suggesting that IGF-1 plays a role in promoting muscle differentiation during limb development. The combined effect of triiodo-l-thyronine (T3) and IGF-1 was also examined. In adult leg cells, IGF-1 promoted growth and differentiation irrespective of the presence of T3. In larval tail cells, cell count was 76% lower in the presence of T3, and IGF-1 did not promote proliferation and differentiation in T3-containing medium. In larval dorsal cells, cell count was also lower in the presence of T3, but IGF-1 enhanced proliferation and differentiation in T3-containing medium. This result is likely due to the presence among dorsal cells of both adult and larval types (1:1). Thus, IGF-1 affects only adult-type myogenic cells in the presence of T3 and helps accelerate dorsal muscle remodeling during metamorphosis.
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Miyata, S., Yada, T., Ishikawa, N. et al. Insulin-like growth factor 1 regulation of proliferation and differentiation of Xenopus laevis myogenic cells in vitro. In Vitro Cell.Dev.Biol.-Animal 53, 231–247 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11626-016-0099-9
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