{"id":80634,"date":"2019-06-13T16:50:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T14:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=80634"},"modified":"2019-06-13T17:45:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:45:29","slug":"scientists-of-the-university-of-silesia-fight-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/scientists-of-the-university-of-silesia-fight-alzheimers-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists of the University of Silesia fight Alzheimer&#8217;s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chemists from the University of Silesia, have developed two new derivatives of carbamates, which can be used in medicines to alleviate the symptoms of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The currently used drugs use enzymes responsible for the degradation of acetylcholine. As a result of the drug&#8217;s action, this distribution is blocked, which increases the level of the neurotransmitter in the patient&#8217;s brain, which in turn compensates for the decrease in its concentration resulting from the death of cholinergic neurons. The substances that can block this decomposition include organic chemicals &#8211; carbamates.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia received new derivatives of carbamates. These compounds will be tested as substances alleviating the symptoms of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease by affecting the enzymes responsible for regulating the degradation of acetylcholine in both the early and advanced stages of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.us.edu.pl\/nowe-zwiazki-w-walce-z-choroba-alzheimera\">https:\/\/www.us.edu.pl\/nowe-zwiazki-w-walce-z-choroba-alzheimera<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemists from the University of Silesia, have developed two new derivatives of carbamates, which can be used in medicines to alleviate the symptoms of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. The currently used drugs use enzymes responsible for the degradation of acetylcholine. As a result of the drug&#8217;s action, this distribution is blocked, which increases the level of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}