{"id":76005,"date":"2018-02-15T13:02:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T21:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/removing-one-enzyme-could-be-key-to-curing-alzheimers"},"modified":"2018-02-15T13:02:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T21:02:46","slug":"removing-one-enzyme-could-be-key-to-curing-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/removing-one-enzyme-could-be-key-to-curing-alzheimers","title":{"rendered":"Removing One Enzyme Could Be Key to Curing Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/removing-one-enzyme-could-be-key-to-curing-alzheimers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An experimental treatment completely reversed Alzheimer\u2019s disease in mice by reducing the levels of a single enzyme in the animals\u2019 brains. The results further bolster the theory that amyloid plaques are at the root of this mysterious brain disease, and that addressing these plaques could lead to an eventual cure for Alzheimer\u2019s. The study, published February 14 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, found that slowly reducing levels of the enzyme BACE1 in mice as they aged either prevented or reversed the formation of amyloid plaques in the brain, a hallmark sign of Alzheimer\u2019s disease\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newsstand.google.com\/articles\/CAIiELP4EUai6zoWdtRK7zh-iM0qGQgEKhAIACoHCAow77zbCjDiq8wBMKiCsgU\">https:\/\/newsstand.google.com\/articles\/CAIiELP4EUai6zoWdtRK7z...8wBMKiCsgU<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An experimental treatment completely reversed Alzheimer\u2019s disease in mice by reducing the levels of a single enzyme in the animals\u2019 brains. The results further bolster the theory that amyloid plaques are at the root of this mysterious brain disease, and that addressing these plaques could lead to an eventual cure for Alzheimer\u2019s. The study, published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76005","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\/76005","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}