{"id":150535,"date":"2022-11-19T14:24:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T20:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/unlocking-the-mysteries-of-a-protein-linked-to-alzheimers-scientists-identify-a-potential-treatment"},"modified":"2022-11-19T14:24:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T20:24:52","slug":"unlocking-the-mysteries-of-a-protein-linked-to-alzheimers-scientists-identify-a-potential-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/unlocking-the-mysteries-of-a-protein-linked-to-alzheimers-scientists-identify-a-potential-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking the Mysteries of a Protein Linked to Alzheimer\u2019s \u2014 Scientists Identify a Potential Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unlocking-the-mysteries-of-a-protein-linked-to-alzheimers-scientists-identify-a-potential-treatment2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A mechanism has been discovered that regulates cellular levels of tau, a protein whose aberrant accumulation is at the root of tauopathies, a class of devastating neurodegenerative diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The finding was discovered in the laboratory of Michel Cayouette, director of cellular neurobiology research at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) and a medical professor at the <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-montreal\/amp\/>University of Montreal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The research, which was recently published in the journal <em>Science Advances<\/em>, demonstrates how the protein known as \u2018numb\u2019 regulates intracellular tau levels, making numb a potential therapeutic agent for tauopathies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mechanism has been discovered that regulates cellular levels of tau, a protein whose aberrant accumulation is at the root of tauopathies, a class of devastating neurodegenerative diseases. The finding was discovered in the laboratory of Michel Cayouette, director of cellular neurobiology research at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) and a medical professor at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150535","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\/150535","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}