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Insulin‐like growth factor‐1 receptor in the cultured cells was also demonstrated immunohistochemically. Scatchard analysis using an [<jats:sup>125</jats:sup>I]insulin‐like growth factor‐1 binding assay showed that the cells cultured in monolayer had a single type of insulin‐like growth factor‐1 receptor, whose affinity and number were estimated to be 7.38 × 10<jats:sup>8</jats:sup>/<jats:italic>M</jats:italic> and 9.27 × 10<jats:sup>4</jats:sup>/cell, respectively. These results suggest that insulin‐like growth factor‐1 stimulates proteoglycan synthesis in cells of the nucleus pulposus and that these cells in culture have an insulin‐like growth factor‐1 autocrine/paracrine mechanism. The expressions of insulin‐like growth factor‐1 mRNA and insulin‐like growth factor‐1 receptor in disc tissue were greater in cells of the nucleus pulposus of fetal bovine intervertebral discs than in those of the adult discs. 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