Old blood can prematurely age the brains of young mice, and scientists may now be closer to understanding how.
A protein located in the cells that form a barrier between the brain and blood could be partly to blame, experiments on mice suggest.If something similar happens in humans, scientists say, methods for countering the protein may hold promise for treating age-related brain decline.
The preliminary study, published online January 3 at bioRxiv.org, focused on a form of the protein known as VCAM1, which…
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