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Switching Off One Crucial Protein Appears to Reverse Brain Aging in Mice
A research team just discovered older mice have more of the protein FTL1 in their hippocampus, reports ScienceAlert. The hippocampus is the region of the brain involved in memory and learning. And the researchers' paper says their new data raises "the exciting possibility that the beneficial effec...
And the researchers' paper says their new data raises "the exciting possibility that the beneficial effects of targeting neuronal ferritin light chain 1 (FTL1) at old age may extend more broadly, beyond cognitive aging, to neurodegenerative disease conditions in older people." The results were clear: the younger mice showed signs of impaired memory and learning abilities, as if they were getting old before their time, while in the older mice there were signs of restored cognitive function — some of the brain aging was effectively reversed..."It is truly a reversal of impairments," says biomedical scientist Saul Villeda, from the University of California, San Francisco. The research was led by a team from the University of California, San Francisco — and published in Nature Aging..
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