{"id":147692,"date":"2022-10-07T07:22:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/uc-study-decreased-proteins-not-amyloid-plaques-tied-to-alzheimers-disease"},"modified":"2022-10-07T07:22:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:22:25","slug":"uc-study-decreased-proteins-not-amyloid-plaques-tied-to-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/uc-study-decreased-proteins-not-amyloid-plaques-tied-to-alzheimers-disease","title":{"rendered":"UC study: Decreased proteins, not amyloid plaques, tied to Alzheimer\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uc-study-decreased-proteins-not-amyloid-plaques-tied-to-alzheimers-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research from the University of Cincinnati bolsters a hypothesis that Alzheimer\u2019s disease is caused by a decline in levels of a specific protein, contrary to a prevailing theory that has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uc.edu\/news\/articles\/2022\/08\/wvxu--does-a-key-alzheimers-study-contain-fabricated-images.html\" target=\"_blank\">recently called into question<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UC researchers led by Alberto Espay, MD, and Andrea Sturchio, MD, in collaboration with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, published the research on Oct. 4 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/content.iospress.com\/articles\/journal-of-alzheimers-disease\/jad220808\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The research is focused on a protein called amyloid-beta. The protein normally carries out its functions in the brain in a form that is soluble, meaning dissolvable in water, but it sometimes hardens into clumps, known as amyloid plaques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from the University of Cincinnati bolsters a hypothesis that Alzheimer\u2019s disease is caused by a decline in levels of a specific protein, contrary to a prevailing theory that has been recently called into question. UC researchers led by Alberto Espay, MD, and Andrea Sturchio, MD, in collaboration with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147692","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}