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Fasting Mimicking Diet Diet Claims To Slow Aging, While This Genetic Mutation Does

... growth hormone, known as insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1). In the normal sequence of events, GH, secreted by the pituitary ... locks on to GH receptors, initiating the production of IGF-1 in the liver. But if a mutation has caused the receptors to be faulty, ...

Article - Mosaic Science - Apr 18 2016 - 8:00am - 0 attachments

Reducing Myc Gene Activity Extends Healthy Lifespan In Mice

... Sure enough, heterozygous mice exhibited changes in IGF-1 signaling and nutrient and energy-sensing pathways, but how Myc engages ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 25 2015 - 3:43pm - 0 attachments

Myc Gene Activity Reduction Extends Healthy Lifespan In Mice

... Sure enough, heterozygous mice exhibited changes in IGF-1 signaling and nutrient and energy-sensing pathways, but how Myc engages ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2015 - 12:46pm - 0 attachments

Meat And Cheese Scare: Protein May Be As Bad For You As Smoking

... Protein Intake Is Associated with a Major Reduction in IGF-1, Cancer, and Overall Mortality in the 65 and Younger but Not Older ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2014 - 4:24pm - 0 attachments

Who Don't Mammals Produce Equal Numbers Of Male And Female Offspring?

The process involved in the formation of sperm cells involves symmetry, the equal chance that a mammalian egg will be fertilized by "male" sperm, carrying a Y chromosome or a "female" sperm, carrying an X chromosome, and that symmetry means th ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2012 - 10:39am - 0 attachments

New Hope For IGF-1 Cancer Treatments

... that bind to the type 1 insulin-like growth factor, or IGF-1, receptor on the cell surface, which has a critical part to play in the ... help explain why only some cancer patients are helped by IGF-1 blockers during clinical tests.  Every cell contains thousands ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 27 2012 - 10:00am - 0 attachments

Delayed Sexual Maturity Linked To Longevity In Females

The sexual maturation of female mice has been linked to longevity by researchers.  They had previously established that mouse strains with lower circulating levels of the hormone IGF1 at age six months live longer than other strains. In new work, ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 31 2012 - 11:43am - 0 attachments

Is Your Duck Too Fat?

... time I lost nearly a stone and my blood markers, like IGF-1, glucose and cholesterol, improved. If I can sustain that, it will ... to cause a drop in Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) , which will turn one’s body from “growth mode” to “repair ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Aug 14 2012 - 1:35pm - 0 attachments

Want To Stay Thin? There's A Vaccine For That

... of growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1), both of which increase metabolism and result in weight loss. ... without affecting normal levels of the growth hormone IGF-1, or insulin levels. “This study demonstrates the possibility of ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2012 - 6:30pm - 0 attachments

IGF1 Gel May Reduce Hearing Loss

Sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL) is a condition that causes deafness in 40,000 Americans each year, usually in early middle-age.    A new treatment has been developed SSHL, say researchers writing in BMC Medicine who describe the positive results ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 30 2010 - 4:00am - 0 attachments