Breaks in the blood-brain barrier were found to cause the brains to get old before their time, revealed Daniela Kaufer, a professor at UC Berkeley and fellow in the CIFAR Child & Brain Development program.
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‘Study provides clues on how to reverse the aging process in the brain.’
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It all comes down to the blood-brain barrier, a membrane that separates the brain from blood circulating in the rest of the body. When it gets disrupted - due to trauma or age - proteins leak through that can wreak havoc in the brain.
In a talk at the AAAS meeting in Washington DC, Kaufer will be discussing new data from experiments in mice and humans that explain the link between blood-brain barrier disruption and declining cognitive function. She will also present new work showing how even very old brains can be made young again.
Source: Eurekalert
Source: Eurekalert
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