{"id":19350,"date":"2019-02-22T08:10:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T08:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19350"},"modified":"2019-02-22T08:10:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T08:10:30","slug":"study-suggests-hiv-drug-as-treatment-for-age-related-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/study-suggests-hiv-drug-as-treatment-for-age-related-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"Study suggests HIV drug as treatment for age-related diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-singlepost size-singlepost\" src=\"http:\/\/www.browndailyherald.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sagaityte_HIV-AIDS-Drug_CO_Brown-University-650x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recent study shows retrotransposons in the human genome to be responsible for age-related diseases and other health challenges. The HIV drug Lamivudine showed potential in mice trials treating age-related neurological diseases caused by inflammation. After two weeks of treatment, the cells of old mice showed reduced signs of chronic inflammation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It is common knowledge that aging is a part of life, but a recent study aims to further unravel the mechanisms behind it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The study, published Feb. 6 in the journal Nature, indicates that remnants of ancient viruses with DNA in the human genome may be actively pushing humans toward the wrinkles and difficulties that manifest with old age.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-sidebar\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p2\">Promising results from a joint study between researchers at Brown and numerous other universities suggest an HIV drug, Lamivudine, could hinder these inherited molecules. This research has applications in potentially treating age-associated neurological diseases and other disorders, according to the study\u2019s authors.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.browndailyherald.com\/2019\/02\/20\/study-suggests-hiv-drug-treatment-age-related-diseases\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Recent study shows retrotransposons in the human genome to be responsible for age-related diseases and other health challenges. The HIV drug Lamivudine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}