{"id":1758,"date":"2016-03-17T19:18:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T19:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/extra\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2016-03-17T21:57:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T21:57:11","slug":"wsu-college-pharmacy-fights-als-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/research\/wsu-college-pharmacy-fights-als-alzheimers\/","title":{"rendered":"WSU College of Pharmacy fights ALS, Alzheimer’s and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WSU<\/a><\/p>\n

“Right here in Spokane, Washington, we could potentially be making the drug to give to people with ALS that could stop their complications altogether.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Those are the words of Travis Denton<\/a>, a medicinal chemist in the WSU College of Pharmacy<\/a>. Denton is trying to find a drug that could repair the brain’s “house-cleaning function”<\/a> and help those suffering from ALS, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and more.<\/p>\n

\"Travis<\/a>Denton shared his work with KREM2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Denton (left) is working with Dr. Kenneth Hensley<\/a> of the University of Toledo to look at the brain’s autophagy process – the process that cleans old or damaged particles and protein from brain cells (the “house-cleaning function”). Denton received $446,233 over three years from the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke<\/a> to help fund his study and hopeful development of a new drug.<\/p>\n

The autophagy process doesn’t work properly for those suffering from ALS, Alzheimer’s and other brain maladies. Hensley has found a new way to activate the autophagy process, and he and Denton will conduct studies to hopefully discover ways it can work in the brain.<\/p>\n

This is another example of researches on our campus solving problems<\/a> and addressing complex health issues in our society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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