Scientists discover a way to boost number of brain cells
(slowing the aging)
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Scientists believe they are a step closer to understanding how the human mind ages after discovering a way to boost the number of brain cells in mice.
Researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine discovered that giving old mice blood from younger specimens resulted in a three-fold increase in the number of brain cells.
They isolated the chemical eotaxin and discovered that injecting it into younger mice had the opposite effect, causing fewer brain cells to be produced. The team are now testing eotaxin's role in memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease and hope their research might also prove useful in treating dementia.
Tony Wyss-Coray, associate professor of neurology and neurological sciences at Stanford and the study's senior author, believes the findings raise the question of whether it might be possible to shield the human brain from aging.
The experiment involved connecting the circulatory systems of pairs of young and old mice together. Continue to read: dailymail.co.uk
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