{"id":4979,"date":"2013-04-04T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_7485\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"382\"]<img class=\"wp-image-7485\" src=\"http:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2016\/01\/RanQ.jpg\" alt=\"Qitao Ran, Ph.D.\" width=\"382\" height=\"435\" \/> <"},"modified":"2016-03-30T21:57:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T21:57:45","slug":"1-2-million-funds-studies-of-alzheimers-cell-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/1-2-million-funds-studies-of-alzheimers-cell-biology\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.2 million funds studies of Alzheimer\u2019s cell biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_7485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7485\" style=\"width: 382px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7485\" src=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2016\/01\/RanQ.jpg\" alt=\"Qitao Ran, Ph.D.\" width=\"382\" height=\"435\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Qitao Ran, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Two newly funded grants totaling $1.2 million will support studies of Alzheimer\u2019s disease at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barshop.uthscsa.edu\/\">Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies<\/a>. One grant, $960,000 over four years from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, is furthering studies of environmental toxins and their role in Alzheimer\u2019s risk. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uthscsa.edu\/csb\/faculty\/ran.asp\">Qitao Ran, Ph.D.<\/a>, and his team found that exposure to pesticides can worsen cognitive decline in mice and increase deposits of amyloid-beta protein in the mouse brain. Amyloid-beta plaques often are seen in the brains of Alzheimer\u2019s patients studied at autopsy. The second grant, $240,000 over three years, is from the Alzheimer\u2019s Association. In this study Dr. Ran and his team are overexpressing an enzyme called glutaredoxin-2. &#8220;If we have more of this enzyme, we believe we can protect the cells and reduce amyloid-beta accumulation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two newly funded grants totaling $1.2 million will support studies of Alzheimer\u2019s disease at the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":7485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[282],"class_list":["post-4979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-2013"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$1.2 million funds studies of Alzheimer\u2019s cell biology - Mission Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/1-2-million-funds-studies-of-alzheimers-cell-biology\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"$1.2 million funds studies of Alzheimer\u2019s cell biology - 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