Doctors have learned to rejuvenate the brain

Scientists at Stanford University have made a revolutionary discovery, which may become a turning point in the fight against Alzheimer's disease. They learned how to rejuvenate the brain in laboratory mice.

Now science has taken another step forward in understanding the aging process of the human brain. This required learning to increase the number of brain cells in mice. The honor of this discovery belongs to scientists from the School of Medicine at Stanford University.

They found that if the wires of an old mice injection of blood taken from young mice, the resulting number of brain cells in the recipient increased to three times. Researchers then isolated substance eotaxin (a small protein that attracts certain types of immune cells in the region where they are absorbed by the other cells) and found that its injection in the blood of young mice, produce the opposite effect, causing a reduction in the number of brain cells.

Now, scientists are exploring the role of eotaxin in the process of memory loss - one of the key and the most unpleasant symptoms Alzheimer . They hope their work will help in creating more effective methods dementia . Theoretically, this discovery makes it possible to create drugs that prevent the human brain aging.

"Now our researchers are investigating the role of eotaxin with the loss of memory, - said a spokesman for the research team. - Began the hunt for a kind of" rejuvenating "factors in the blood that may be useful in treating dementias Like Alzheimer And perhaps slow the aging process of the brain. "

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