{"id":66152,"date":"2012-12-18T18:48:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T18:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/genetic-manipulation-of-urate-alters-neurodegeneration-in-mouse-model-of-parkinsons-disease.php"},"modified":"2012-12-18T18:48:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T18:48:04","slug":"genetic-manipulation-of-urate-alters-neurodegeneration-in-mouse-model-of-parkinsons-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/genetic-medicine\/genetic-manipulation-of-urate-alters-neurodegeneration-in-mouse-model-of-parkinsons-disease.php","title":{"rendered":"Genetic manipulation of urate alters neurodegeneration in mouse model of Parkinson&#39;s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts General Hospital investigators report that mice with a genetic mutation increasing urate levels were protected against the kind of neurodegeneration that underlies Parkinson&#39;s disease, while the damage was worse in animals with abnormally low urate. Their findings add further support to the possibility that increasing levels of urate may protect against Parkinson&#39;s disease.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the original post: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/r\/_ylt=A2KJ3CZWutBQeQ8Avwz_wgt.\/SIG=12k38i6ja\/EXP=1355885270\/**http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2012-12\/mgh-gmo121412.php\" title=\"Genetic manipulation of urate alters neurodegeneration in mouse model of Parkinson&#39;s disease\">Genetic manipulation of urate alters neurodegeneration in mouse model of Parkinson&#39;s disease<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts General Hospital investigators report that mice with a genetic mutation increasing urate levels were protected against the kind of neurodegeneration that underlies Parkinson&#39;s disease, while the damage was worse in animals with abnormally low urate. Their findings add further support to the possibility that increasing levels of urate may protect against Parkinson&#39;s disease. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/genetic-medicine\/genetic-manipulation-of-urate-alters-neurodegeneration-in-mouse-model-of-parkinsons-disease.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetic-medicine"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}