{"id":3394,"date":"2011-01-25T16:13:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T15:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2011-01-25T16:13:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T15:13:10","slug":"discovery-of-a-new-protein-has-been-linked-to-vision-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/discovery-of-a-new-protein-has-been-linked-to-vision-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of a new protein has been linked to vision loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Glaucoma affects more than 60 million people throughout the world, and what with increasing longevity and ageing populations this number is set to increase.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>However a new study documented in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has identified a build up of protein called gamma synuclein in a new biological pathway at a specific site in the optic nerve of mice.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Research shows patients with Parkinson&rsquo;s disease appear to have a similar protein present, which is thought to be a result of neuronal breakdown. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>These findings are a major step forward in the quest to discover a treatment that will cure glaucoma and remove the threat of blindness that hangs over so many millions of people.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glaucoma affects more than 60 million people throughout the world, and what with increasing longevity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[872,946,1788],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}