{"id":82239,"date":"2018-08-31T23:42:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T06:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/liver-disease-drug-could-help-restore-cells-damaged"},"modified":"2018-08-31T23:42:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T06:42:48","slug":"liver-disease-drug-could-help-restore-cells-damaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/liver-disease-drug-could-help-restore-cells-damaged","title":{"rendered":"Liver disease drug could help restore cells damaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/liver-disease-drug-could-help-restore-cells-damaged2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A drug which has been used to treat liver disease for decades could help to restore cells damaged by Alzheimer\u2019s, a new study from the University of Sheffield has found.<\/p>\n<p>The pioneering study, funded by Alzheimer\u2019s Research UK, discovered the drug ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) improves mitochondrial dysfunction \u2013 which is known to be a causative factor for both sporadic and familial Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>Mitochondria play a pivotal role in both neuronal cell survival and death as they regulate energy metabolism and cell death pathways acting as a cell\u2019s battery.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018-08-liver-disease-drug-cells-alzheimer.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018&#45;08-liver-disease-dru...eimer.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drug which has been used to treat liver disease for decades could help to restore cells damaged by Alzheimer\u2019s, a new study from the University of Sheffield has found. The pioneering study, funded by Alzheimer\u2019s Research UK, discovered the drug ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) improves mitochondrial dysfunction \u2013 which is known to be a causative [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82239","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\/82239","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\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}