{"id":105369,"date":"2020-04-14T17:03:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T00:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/exercise-restores-youthful-properties-to-muscle-stem-cells-of-old-mice"},"modified":"2020-04-14T17:03:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T00:03:51","slug":"exercise-restores-youthful-properties-to-muscle-stem-cells-of-old-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/exercise-restores-youthful-properties-to-muscle-stem-cells-of-old-mice","title":{"rendered":"Exercise restores youthful properties to muscle stem cells of old mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exercise-restores-youthful-properties-to-muscle-stem-cells-of-old-mice2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A nightly jaunt on the exercise wheel enhances muscle-repair capabilities in old mice, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Only older <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/mice\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mice<\/a> saw this benefit, which the researchers found is due to the rejuvenation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/animals\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">animals<\/a>\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/muscle+stem+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">muscle stem cells<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe effect in old animals is very significant,\u201d said Thomas Rando, MD, Ph.D., professor of neurology and neurological sciences and director of Stanford\u2019s Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging. \u201cWe found that <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/regular+exercise\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">regular exercise<\/a> restores youthfulness to tissue repair. Their muscle stem <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cells<\/a> start to look and behave like those of much younger animals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nightly jaunt on the exercise wheel enhances muscle-repair capabilities in old mice, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford School of Medicine. Only older mice saw this benefit, which the researchers found is due to the rejuvenation of the animals\u2019 muscle stem cells. \u201cThe effect in old animals is very significant,\u201d said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}