{"id":2201,"date":"2017-12-10T19:20:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T19:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxygenworldwide.wordpress.com\/?p=2201"},"modified":"2017-12-10T19:20:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T19:20:11","slug":"could-an-existing-oxygen-therapy-treat-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/could-an-existing-oxygen-therapy-treat-alzheimers\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxygen therapy treat Alzheimer&#8217;s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tBreathing oxygen at a higher-than-normal air pressure might ease some of the symptoms of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, if recent research done in mice has the same results in humans.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/oxygenworldwide.wordpress.com\/2017\/12\/10\/could-an-existing-oxygen-therapy-treat-alzheimers\/mobile\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2202 noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mobile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMice genetically engineered to develop some human features of\u00a0Alzheimer&#8217;s disease\u00a0showed significant reductions in physical and behavioral symptoms after 2 weeks of daily treatment with hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT).<br \/>\nThis was the result that a team hailing from the University of Tel Aviv (TAU) in Israel reported in a paper that was published recently in the journal\u00a0<em>Neurobiology of Aging<\/em>.<br \/>\nHBOT is a type of treatment during which the person breathes oxygen at a pressure that is greater than normal air pressure. The treatment, which is delivered inside a pressurized chamber, can cause the lungs to absorb up to three times more oxygen than usual.<br \/>\nThe researchers note in their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.neurobiolaging.2017.10.007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study paper<\/a>\u00a0that, while HBOT &#8220;has been used successfully to treat several neurological conditions,&#8221; its effects on Alzheimer&#8217;s disease &#8220;have never been thoroughly examined.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"mnt_dlb3_container\" class=\"mnt leaderboard\">\nIn a hyperbaric oxygen chamber that they custom-built for the small animals, the researchers gave the transgenic mice 1 hour of HBOT every day for 14 days. They also gave another group of normal mice (the controls) the same treatment.<br \/>\nAfter this, the team observed the mice as they completed a number of behavioral tests. They also examined their brain tissue for effects of the treatment on the physical hallmarks of Alzheimer&#8217;s. They compared the results with the control mice.<br \/>\nThe researchers&#8217; analysis showed various biological and biochemical signs that HBOT had reduced inflammation in the brain.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe team suggests that the findings show that HBOT shows promise as a treatment for Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, especially given that it &#8220;is used in the clinic to treat various indications, including neurological conditions.&#8221;<br \/>\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<p>references https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breathing oxygen at a higher-than-normal air pressure might ease some of the symptoms of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, if recent research done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17,49,91,244,441],"class_list":["post-2201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portable-oxygen","tag-breathing","tag-medical-oxygen","tag-health-2","tag-hbot","tag-alzheimers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}