Compared to NBW, the liver in IUGR neonates was characterized by a significantly enhanced ratio of Kupffer cells to hepatocytes and insulin receptor abundance as well as higher percentages of cells expressing receptors for adipokines (resistin and adiponectin), increased expression of TNF-α (as marker of inflammation), and increased expression of insulin receptor and uncoupling protein 3 (UCP3).
Organ-specific defects in insulin-like growth factor and insulin receptor signaling in late gestational asymmetric intrauterine growth restriction in Cited1 mutant mice.
We report a homozygous missense mutation at position 1092 (substitution of glutamine for arginine) in the tyrosine kinase domain of the insulin receptor in a patient with leprechaunism associated with severe insulin resistance and intrauterine growth retardation.
However, fibroblasts cultured from a patient with intrauterine growth restriction and severe insulin resistance (leprechaun Atl-1) had normal amounts of insulin receptor protein and defective insulin binding but constitutive activation of insulin-receptor autophosphorylation and kinase activity and of glucose transport.