{"id":149012,"date":"2022-10-28T02:24:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T07:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/gene-involved-in-neuronal-structure-and-function-may-protect-against-alzheimers-disease"},"modified":"2022-10-28T02:24:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T07:24:19","slug":"gene-involved-in-neuronal-structure-and-function-may-protect-against-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/gene-involved-in-neuronal-structure-and-function-may-protect-against-alzheimers-disease","title":{"rendered":"Gene Involved in Neuronal Structure and Function May Protect Against Alzheimer\u2019s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gene-involved-in-neuronal-structure-and-function-may-protect-against-alzheimers-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The overexpression of a gene tied to cell division and the structure and function of neurons may prevent and protect against cognitive decline in both mice and humans with Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD), according to a new study by scientists at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cuanschutz.edu\/\">University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The gene, Kinesin-5 or KIF11, does this despite the presence of amyloid beta (Abeta), the main component of plaques in the brains of those with AD. Scientists have traditionally targeted the plaques when looking for treatments for the fatal disease. In this case, they went around them.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2589004222015607\">study<\/a> was published online last week in the journal <em>iScience<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The overexpression of a gene tied to cell division and the structure and function of neurons may prevent and protect against cognitive decline in both mice and humans with Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD), according to a new study by scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. The gene, Kinesin-5 or KIF11, does this despite [\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-149012","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\/149012","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=149012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}