Neuroscience

(2014) Regulatory mechanisms underlying the differential growth of dendrites and axons

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"Recent studies have uncovered two distinct types of regulatory mechanisms that differentiate dendritic and axonal growth: dedicated mechanisms and bimodal mechanisms. Dedicated mechanisms regulate either dendrite- specific or axon-specific growth; in contrast, bimodal mechanisms direct dendritic and axonal development in opposite manners."

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Shrooms

Potentiation of neuritogenic activity of medicinal mushrooms in rat pheochromocytoma cells

DIHEXA

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Ashwagandha

Axon (or dendrite) predominant outgrowth induced by constituents from Ashwagandha

"results suggest that axons are predominantly extended by withanolide A, and dendrites by withanosides IVand VI."

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(2009) Sominone enhances neurite outgrowth and spatial memory mediated by the neurotrophic factor receptor, RET

withanoside IV a.k.a. Sominone = GDNF-independent stimulator of the RET pathway and/or a novel modulator of RET signalling