{"id":422,"date":"2015-05-20T15:24:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T20:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=422"},"modified":"2015-05-20T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T20:37:07","slug":"422","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"TGF-\u03b21 inhibitor stimulates stem cell division in old mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RepSox, a TGF-\u03b21 inhibitor, promotes stem cell growth and enhances neurogenesis and muscle regeneration in old mice. Neurogenesis occurs primarily in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus, and this is where the authors find it. No functional tests are shown.<\/p>\n<p>The compound, 2-(3-(6-Methylpyridin-2-yl)-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)-1,5-naphthyridine or RepSox (<a href=\"http:\/\/pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/compound\/449054#section=Top\">PubChem<\/a>) has been mentioned in half a dozen studies as a drug that promotes stem cell proliferation. Compound sells for research use at $50 \/ gram.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.impactjournals.com\/oncotarget\/index.php?journal=oncotarget&amp;page=article&amp;op=view&amp;path[]=3851\">&lt;p&gt;Systemic attenuation of the TGF-\u03b2 pathway by a single drug simultaneously rejuvenates hippocampal neurogenesis and myogenesis in the same old mammal.<\/a> Hanadie Yousef, Michael J. Conboy, Adam Morgenthaler, Christina Schlesinger, Lukasz Bugaj, Preeti Paliwal, Christopher Greer, Irina M. Conboy, David Schaffer<br \/>\nOncotarget. May 06, 2015. (<a href=\"pics\/Yousef_et_al.2015.Oncotarget.pdf\">pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RepSox, a TGF-\u03b21 inhibitor, promotes stem cell growth and enhances neurogenesis and muscle regeneration in old mice. Neurogenesis occurs primarily in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus, and this is where the authors find it. No functional tests are shown. The compound, 2-(3-(6-Methylpyridin-2-yl)-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)-1,5-naphthyridine or RepSox (PubChem) has been mentioned in half a dozen studies as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}