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Young blood for old brains - NIH video lecture by Tony Wyss-Coray

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Dr Tony Wyss-Coray of Stanford U. discusses heterochronic parabiosis experiments (hooking up the circulatory systems of young and old mice) and their implication for the development of therapeutics for Alzheimer's and other age related diseases (PD is typically an age related disease).

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Conboy et al. have reported that dilution of pro-aging factors in old blood (mainly TGF beta family proteins) is what is mainly responsible for the benefits:

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