“Although the research focused on a single person, it reverberated through the world of brain science and even got the attention of the (then) acting director of the National Institutes of Health, Lawrence Tabak. “Sometimes careful study of even just one truly remarkable person can lead the way to fascinating discoveries with far-reaching implications,” Tabak wrote in his blog post about the discovery.”
Very cool - they found an extended family in Medellin, Colombia where virtually everyone got early-onset Alzheimer’s. Except for one guy. Studying his genome revealed a variant related to Reelin, and subsequent studies suggest that Reelin is indeed neuroprotective.
> Purified recombinant Reelin was injected bilaterally into the ventricles of wild-type mice. We demonstrate that a single in vivo injection of Reelin increased activation of adaptor protein Disabled-1 and cAMP-response element binding protein after 15 min. These changes correlated with increased dendritic spine density, increased hippocampal CA1 long-term potentiation (LTP), and enhanced performance in associative and spatial learning and memory.
The almost daily information I'm hearing about Alzheimer's research is reassuring. My wife's grandmother died of it, and her mother is probably in the first 1/4 of its development. Today's gains may be too late to help her, but I'm hoping they will develop into useful treatments before my wife would start developing symptoms.
highfrequency ·88 days ago
Very cool - they found an extended family in Medellin, Colombia where virtually everyone got early-onset Alzheimer’s. Except for one guy. Studying his genome revealed a variant related to Reelin, and subsequent studies suggest that Reelin is indeed neuroprotective.
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AlexErrant ·88 days ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166788/
Published 2011. It's been a while... I wonder what it would take to reach human trials.
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bdcravens ·88 days ago
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akira2501 ·88 days ago
"Are you reelin' in the years?
Stowin' away the time"
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hieronymusN ·88 days ago
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(23)006...
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