{"id":167447,"date":"2023-07-13T12:23:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T17:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/a-key-hormone-in-alzheimers-disease-may-finally-be-understood"},"modified":"2023-07-13T12:23:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T17:23:33","slug":"a-key-hormone-in-alzheimers-disease-may-finally-be-understood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/a-key-hormone-in-alzheimers-disease-may-finally-be-understood","title":{"rendered":"A Key Hormone in Alzheimer\u2019s Disease May Finally Be Understood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-key-hormone-in-alzheimers-disease-may-finally-be-understood2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research into the hormone <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Somatostatin\">somatostatin<\/a> has the potential to change the general scientific consensus on how it influences <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> and how the disease begins to develop in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Somatostatin plays a role in many parts of our body. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nm1206\">previous studies<\/a>, the hormone was also thought to drive the production of the enzyme neprilysin, which can degrade amyloid beta, the protein that clumps together and damages neurons in the brains of people with Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The new study suggests that somatostatin actually influences <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amyloid_beta\">amyloid-beta<\/a> more directly, putting the brakes on the mechanisms by which the protein\u2019s monomer (single molecule) form combines into an oligomer (multi-molecule) form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research into the hormone somatostatin has the potential to change the general scientific consensus on how it influences Alzheimer\u2019s and how the disease begins to develop in the brain. Somatostatin plays a role in many parts of our body. In previous studies, the hormone was also thought to drive the production of the enzyme [\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-167447","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\/167447","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=167447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}