Rapamycin Raises Cognition Throughout Life Span In Mouse Model

<p>Main Category: Alzheimers / Dementia
Also Included In: Depression;  Anxiety / Stress
Article Date: 02 Jul 2012 1:00 PDT</p>

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<p>Cognitive skills such as training and memory lessen with age in everyone, and a drop-off is steepest in Alzheimers disease. Texas scientists seeking a approach to forestall this decrease reported sparkling formula this week with a drug that has Polynesian roots.</p>

<p>The researchers, allocated in a School of Medicine during The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, combined rapamycin to a diet of healthy mice via a rodents life span. Rapamycin, a bacterial product initial removed from dirt on Easter Island, extended training and memory in immature mice and softened these faculties in aged mice, a investigate showed.</p>

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