{"id":173081,"date":"2023-09-29T11:17:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/older-mouse-brains-rejuvenated-by-protein-found-in-young-blood"},"modified":"2023-09-29T11:39:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:39:01","slug":"older-mouse-brains-rejuvenated-by-protein-found-in-young-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/older-mouse-brains-rejuvenated-by-protein-found-in-young-blood","title":{"rendered":"Older mouse brains rejuvenated by protein found in young blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/older-mouse-brains-rejuvenated-by-protein-found-in-young-blood2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A protein involved in wound healing can improve learning and memory in ageing mice1.<\/p>\n<p>Platelet factor 4 (PF4) has long been known for its role in promoting blood clotting and sealing broken blood vessels. Now, researchers are wondering whether this signalling molecule could be used to treat age-related cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe therapeutic possibilities are very exciting,\u201d says geneticist and anti-ageing scientist David Sinclair at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the research. The study was published on 16 August in Nature.<\/p>\n<p>Young blood, old brains.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A platelet factor joins the list of blood components that might have anti-ageing effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A protein involved in wound healing can improve learning and memory in ageing mice1. Platelet factor 4 (PF4) has long been known for its role in promoting blood clotting and sealing broken blood vessels. Now, researchers are wondering whether this signalling molecule could be used to treat age-related cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer\u2019s disease. \u201cThe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173081","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\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173112,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173081\/revisions\/173112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}