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Expression of growth inhibitory factor ( GIF) in normal and injured rat brains.

Immunohistochemical study on growth inhibitory factor ( GIF) in rat brain has revealed that a glial cell layer on the surface of cerebral cortex and the cells surrounding Purkinje cells has been reported. In addition, neurons in gray matter were weakly immunostained for GIF. In situ hybridization using digoxigenin-labeled single-strand RNA probes also demonstrated that most of the neurons and small round cells, which were presumably astrocytes, expressed GIF mRNA in the cerebral cortex of rat brain. These findings indicate that GIF is produced in neurons as well as in astrocytes. The most prominent findings in this study are, a very strong reaction of GIF and GIF mRNA in the reactive astrocytes around the site of injury induced by stab wound or kainic acid injection. These results raised the possibility that GIF may act as an acute-phase protein in reactive astrocytes and have a role in tissue repair.[1]

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  1. Expression of growth inhibitory factor (GIF) in normal and injured rat brains. Anezaki, T., Ishiguro, H., Hozumi, I., Inuzuka, T., Hiraiwa, M., Kobayashi, H., Yuguchi, T., Wanaka, A., Uda, Y., Miyatake, T. Neurochem. Int. (1995) [Pubmed]
 
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