{"id":324,"date":"2007-07-17T09:46:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T13:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2007-07-17T09:46:47","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T13:46:47","slug":"before-i-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Before I forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Svenska Dagbladet<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.svd.se\/dynamiskt\/inrikes\/did_16249947.asp\">reports<\/a> &#8212; though I can&#8217;t find it in the current <span class=\"caps\">PNAS <\/span>&#8212; that researchers at the Karolinska, working with a team in Florida, have managed to reverse Alzheimer&#8217;s disease in mice by combining stem-cell transplants into the brain with a course of Fenserin, a chemical already known to slow the development of amyloid plaques.<\/p>\n\n<p>The science isn&#8217;t terribly clear from the article, and I don&#8217;t have time to pursue it right now. It says the results are published in <span class=\"caps\">PNAS.<\/span> They&#8217;re not in the current issue, is all I can say. Perhaps an embargo has been jumped. In any case, the news line is strong: &#8220;Swedish and American researchers have found a combination of drug treatment and cell transplants which stimulates neurogenesis.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>This could be huge news, so I jot it down here in the knowledge that I will have forgotten all about it by lunchtime.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Svenska Dagbladet reports &#8212; though I can&#8217;t find it in the current <span class=\"caps\">PNAS <\/span>&#8212; that researchers at the Karolinska, working with a team in Florida, have managed to reverse Alzheimer&#8217;s disease in mice by combining stem-cell transplants into the brain &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=324\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=324\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}