{"id":191646,"date":"2024-06-23T04:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T09:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/scientists-reverse-alzheimers-synapse-damage-in-mice"},"modified":"2024-06-23T04:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T09:22:24","slug":"scientists-reverse-alzheimers-synapse-damage-in-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/scientists-reverse-alzheimers-synapse-damage-in-mice","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Reverse Alzheimer\u2019s Synapse Damage in Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-reverse-alzheimers-synapse-damage-in-mice2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists in Japan say they have reversed the signs of Alzheimer\u2019s disease in lab mice by restoring the healthy function of synapses, critical parts of neurons that shoot chemical messages to other neurons.<\/p>\n<p>The secret was developing a synthetic peptide, a small package of amino acids \u2014 a mini-protein, if you will \u2014 and injecting it up the nostrils of the mice, in an experiment they detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0006899324002415?via%3Dihub\" class=\"\">study<\/a> published in the journal <em>Brain Research<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, mice are very different from humans. But if the treatment successfully survives the gauntlet of clinical studies with human participants, it could potentially lead to a new treatment for Alzheimer\u2019s disease, a tragic degenerative condition that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alzint.org\/about\/dementia-facts-figures\/dementia-statistics\/\" class=\"\">burdens tens of millions of people<\/a> around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in Japan say they have reversed the signs of Alzheimer\u2019s disease in lab mice by restoring the healthy function of synapses, critical parts of neurons that shoot chemical messages to other neurons. The secret was developing a synthetic peptide, a small package of amino acids \u2014 a mini-protein, if you will \u2014 and injecting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191646","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}