{"id":227764,"date":"2025-12-24T10:16:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/key-phospholipid-points-to-potential-treatment-for-vascular-dementia"},"modified":"2025-12-24T10:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:16:24","slug":"key-phospholipid-points-to-potential-treatment-for-vascular-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/key-phospholipid-points-to-potential-treatment-for-vascular-dementia","title":{"rendered":"Key phospholipid points to potential treatment for vascular dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/key-phospholipid-points-to-potential-treatment-for-vascular-dementia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A possible new treatment for impaired brain blood flow and related dementias is on the horizon. Research by scientists at the University of Vermont Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine provides novel insights into the mechanisms that regulate brain blood flow and highlights a potential therapeutic strategy to correct vascular dysfunction.<\/p>\n<p>Their preclinical findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2522750122\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>, suggest that adding a missing phospholipid back into a person\u2019s circulatory system could restore normal brain blood flow and reduce symptoms of dementia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis discovery is a huge step forward in our efforts to prevent dementia and neurovascular diseases,\u201d says principal investigator Osama Harraz, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology at Larner College of Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A possible new treatment for impaired brain blood flow and related dementias is on the horizon. Research by scientists at the University of Vermont Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine provides novel insights into the mechanisms that regulate brain blood flow and highlights a potential therapeutic strategy to correct vascular dysfunction. Their preclinical findings, published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227764","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\/227764","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}