{"id":98139,"date":"2019-11-04T21:02:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T05:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/drug-combination-preserves-cognitive-function-in-mice-with-alzheimers-disease"},"modified":"2019-11-04T21:02:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T05:02:31","slug":"drug-combination-preserves-cognitive-function-in-mice-with-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/drug-combination-preserves-cognitive-function-in-mice-with-alzheimers-disease","title":{"rendered":"Drug combination preserves cognitive function in mice with Alzheimer\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drug-combination-preserves-cognitive-function-in-mice-with-alzheimers-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/som\/index.html\">Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine<\/a> shows that selectively removing senescent cells\u2014cells that no longer divide\u2014from brains with a form of Alzheimer\u2019s disease can reduce brain damage and inflammation and slow the pace of cognitive decline. These findings, say researchers, add to evidence that senescent cells contribute to the damage caused by Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur results show that eliminating these cells may be a viable route to treat Alzheimer\u2019s disease in humans,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/neuroscience.jhu.edu\/research\/faculty\/57\">Mark Mattson<\/a>, a professor of neuroscience at the School of Medicine and a senior investigator in the Laboratory of Neurosciences at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nia.nih.gov\/\">National Institute on Aging<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A report on the work was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41593-019-0372-9\">published April 1 in <em>Nature Neuroscience<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine shows that selectively removing senescent cells\u2014cells that no longer divide\u2014from brains with a form of Alzheimer\u2019s disease can reduce brain damage and inflammation and slow the pace of cognitive decline. These findings, say researchers, add to evidence that senescent cells contribute to the damage [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98139","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\/98139","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}