{"id":47,"date":"2015-03-14T18:39:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T23:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=47"},"modified":"2015-03-14T18:39:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T23:39:22","slug":"treating-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/03\/14\/treating-alzheimers\/","title":{"rendered":"Treating Alzheimer&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new approach with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2015\/mar\/12\/alzheimers-breakthrough-as-ultrasound-successfully-treats-disease-in-mice\" target=\"_blank\">mice<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After several weeks of treating mice that had been genetically altered to produce amyloid plaques, the scientists found the ultrasound almost completely cleared the plaques in 75% of the animals, without apparent damage to brain tissue.<\/p>\n<p>While there is still some debate as to whether plaques are a cause or a symptom of Alzheimer\u2019s, the experiment found that the treated mice had improved memory, as measured by three different tests, compared with untreated ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the few diseases that really frightens the hell out of me.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/03\/12\/1370415\/-Scientists-may-have-made-an-Alzheimer-s-breakthrough-treatment-using-ultrasound#\" target=\"_blank\">weinenkel @ The Daily Kos<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new approach with mice: After several weeks of treating mice that had been genetically altered to produce amyloid plaques, the scientists found the ultrasound almost completely cleared the plaques in 75% of the animals, without apparent damage to brain tissue. While there is still some debate as to whether \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/03\/14\/treating-alzheimers\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}