New therapy introduced – to Prevent memory loss and Improve Memory
A new therapy introduced by a team led by, Cristina Alberini, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai, which claims to prevent long-term memory loss and improve memory. This research was declared in Jan 27th issue of nature.
Mount Sinai, was ranked among the top 20 medical schools by both, National Institute of Health funding and by U. S. News & World Report.
The team analyzed that how a protein called insulin like- growth factor IGF-II enhanced memory. IGF-II is a gene found during the brain development that reduces with aging and affects the memory. This protein was injected in the hippocampus of rats, which resulted in strong long-term memory and allowed them to avoid locations where they have encountered a mild shock. According to them, IGF-II will become an important drug, for boosting memory.
As per the records, this is the first experiment of potent memory improvement through a naturally occurring factor that passed via blood- brain barrier, and hence is expected to be a promising treatment development.
As stated by, D. Alberini, the resulting data of this research will be a big breakthrough in studying and investigating the memory loss diseases like, Alzheimer's, stroke or dementia.
[source: http://topnews.us/content/233535-new-therapy-introduced-prevent-memory-loss-and-improve-memory]
A new therapy introduced by a team led by, Cristina Alberini, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai, which claims to prevent long-term memory loss and improve memory. This research was declared in Jan 27th issue of nature.
Mount Sinai, was ranked among the top 20 medical schools by both, National Institute of Health funding and by U. S. News & World Report.
The team analyzed that how a protein called insulin like- growth factor IGF-II enhanced memory. IGF-II is a gene found during the brain development that reduces with aging and affects the memory. This protein was injected in the hippocampus of rats, which resulted in strong long-term memory and allowed them to avoid locations where they have encountered a mild shock. According to them, IGF-II will become an important drug, for boosting memory.
As per the records, this is the first experiment of potent memory improvement through a naturally occurring factor that passed via blood- brain barrier, and hence is expected to be a promising treatment development.
As stated by, D. Alberini, the resulting data of this research will be a big breakthrough in studying and investigating the memory loss diseases like, Alzheimer's, stroke or dementia.
[source: http://topnews.us/content/233535-new-therapy-introduced-prevent-memory-loss-and-improve-memory]
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