If you need one more reason to motivate yourself to be more physically active, you can add the exercise-induced hormone irisin to your list. In the past two years, scientists have discovered that a ...

Reduction of Alzheimer’s pathology in a petri dish. (Doo Yeon Kim/Massachusetts General Hospital) (CN) — Along with developing the first 3D cell culture models of Alzheimer’s disease, a research team ...

Medical researchers have used a 3D human neural cell culture model to show that the exercise-induced muscle hormone, irisin, reduces the level of amyloid beta deposits associated with Alzheimer's ...

Irisin, a muscle-derived hormone, reduces amyloid beta pathology, a key hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), in cell models. Researchers say the findings may pave the way for new treatments for AD.

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital believe they’ve discovered the hormonal link that allows exercise to reduce Alzheimer’s disease risk—the last affirmation that the best known way to ...

Two weeks of voluntary wheel running induces higher expression of irisin--a fat-burning hormone that is released during exercise--in bone tissue in mice. In addition, systemic administration of irisin ...

Researchers led by a team at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) used a 3D human cell culture model of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) to identify a cellular and molecular mechanism by which the ...

In a recent study published in Neuron, researchers explored the biological mechanisms by which exercise-induced irisin attenuates amyloid-beta (Aβ) pathology in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). AD, a form of ...

Drugs based on the hormone irisin could help to stave off dementia in physically inactive patients, scientists claim. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's going ...

Myokines are hormones that communicate via the bloodstream with various organs such as the brain, adipose tissue, liver, bone ...

BOSTON – Researchers who previously developed the first 3D human cell culture models of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) that displays two major hallmarks of the condition—the generation of amyloid beta ...