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To examine the effects of the selective BMP signaling inhibitor dorsomorphin (Fig.?1) on the neuronal differentiation of PC12 cells, we first investigated the effects of dorsomorphin on BMP2-induced neurite outgrowth. PC12 cells were incubated in the presence or absence of 40?ng/mL BMP2 and/or 2?��m dorsomorphin for 2?days, and the extent of neurite outgrowth was evaluated on day 2. Before drug treatment on day 0, the cells were relatively small and round with few visible neurites (Fig.?2A); the extent of neurite outgrowth http://www.selleckchem.com/products/jq1.html was http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Rapamycin.html and dorsomorphin (2?��m) http://www.selleck.cn/products/AP24534.html (Fig.?2E,F). The morphology of the neurite-like processes formed as a result of dorsomorphin treatment resembled that of the BMP2-induced neurites (see Fig.?2C). We showed that dorsomorphin alone can induce neurite outgrowth in PC12 cells, similar to BMP2; thus, we next evaluated the dose response and time course of dorsomorphin-dependent neurite outgrowth in PC12 cells. We first scored PC12 cells for neurite outgrowth after a 2-day incubation with various concentrations of dorsomorphin (0�C2?��m) or another BMP signaling inhibitor, LDN-193189 (0�C2?��m). PC12 cells were also scored for neurite outgrowth at the indicated times (0�C48?h) after the addition of 2?��m dorsomorphin. As shown in Fig.?3A,B, dorsomorphin-mediated neurite outgrowth occurred rapidly in a dose- and time-dependent manner. However, LDN-193189 did not induce neuritogenesis at all, despite the fact that its chemical structure is similar to that of dorsomorphin (Figs?1 and 3C,D). These results imply that dorsomorphin has the potential to induce neuritogenesis via an unknown and original mechanism that differs from the BMP2-dependent mechanism and that the dorsomorphin-dependent mechanism of neuritogenesis may involve the rapid activation of an intracellular signaling pathway. Activation of the ERK1/2 signaling pathway induces neuritogenesis in PC12 cells (Kao et?al. 2001).