{"id":71308,"date":"2017-07-26T22:02:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T05:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/brain-cells-found-to-control-aging"},"modified":"2017-07-26T22:02:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T05:02:25","slug":"brain-cells-found-to-control-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/brain-cells-found-to-control-aging","title":{"rendered":"Brain cells found to control aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-cells-found-to-control-aging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have found that stem cells in the brain\u2019s hypothalamus govern how fast aging occurs in the body. The finding, made in mice, could lead to new strategies for warding off age-related diseases and extending lifespan. The paper was published online today in <i>Nature<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/hypothalamus\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hypothalamus<\/a> was known to regulate important processes including growth, development, reproduction and metabolism. In a 2013 <i>Nature<\/i> paper, Einstein researchers made the surprising finding that the hypothalamus also regulates aging throughout the body. Now, the scientists have pinpointed the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cells<\/a> in the hypothalamus that control aging: a tiny population of adult <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/neural+stem+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neural stem cells<\/a>, which were known to be responsible for forming new brain neurons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur research shows that the number of hypothalamic neural stem cells naturally declines over the life of the animal, and this decline accelerates aging,\u201d says senior author Dongsheng Cai, M.D., Ph.D., (professor of molecular pharmacology at Einstein. \u201cBut we also found that the effects of this loss are not irreversible. By replenishing these stem cells or the molecules they produce, it\u2019s possible to slow and even reverse various aspects of aging throughout the body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2017-07-brain-cells-aging.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2017&#45;07-brain-cells-aging.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have found that stem cells in the brain\u2019s hypothalamus govern how fast aging occurs in the body. The finding, made in mice, could lead to new strategies for warding off age-related diseases and extending lifespan. The paper was published online today in Nature. The hypothalamus was known to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71308","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}