{"id":180123,"date":"2024-01-09T11:24:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T17:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/experimental-therapy-eases-alzheimers-signs-symptoms-in-mice"},"modified":"2024-01-09T11:24:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T17:24:31","slug":"experimental-therapy-eases-alzheimers-signs-symptoms-in-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/experimental-therapy-eases-alzheimers-signs-symptoms-in-mice","title":{"rendered":"Experimental Therapy Eases Alzheimer\u2019s Signs, Symptoms in Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experimental-therapy-eases-alzheimers-signs-symptoms-in-mice.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The therapy\u2014developed at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC)\u2014relies on both the immune system to fight key aspects of Alzheimer\u2019s, plus modified cells that zero in on the brain protein plaques that are a hallmark of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>In patients with Alzheimer\u2019s, amyloid-beta protein forms plaques that prevent nerve cells from signaling each other. One theory is that this might cause irreversible memory loss and behavior changes characteristic of Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>The new study was recently published in the journal Molecular Neurodegeneration. Researchers used genetically modified immune-controlling cells called Tregs to target amyloid-beta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The therapy\u2014developed at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC)\u2014relies on both the immune system to fight key aspects of Alzheimer\u2019s, plus modified cells that zero in on the brain protein plaques that are a hallmark of the disease. In patients with Alzheimer\u2019s, amyloid-beta protein forms plaques that prevent nerve cells from signaling each other. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180123","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}