{"id":131987,"date":"2025-06-30T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131987"},"modified":"2025-06-30T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T10:00:12","slug":"age-related-hearing-loss-linked-to-protein-deficiency-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131987","title":{"rendered":"Age-related hearing loss linked to protein deficiency, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostScientists have discovered a key mechanism behind age-related hearing loss, and they say a common oral medication could delay its progression.<br \/>\nIn a study of crab-eating macaques, the team from China and the United States found that a gradual deficiency in a protein vital to receptor cells in the ear was a characteristic of cochlear ageing in primates.<br \/>\nThe researchers also found that it was possible to slow down age-related hearing loss in the monkeys by using a common diabetes medication called&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3316313\/age-related-hearing-loss-linked-protein-deficiency-study-finds?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostScientists have discovered a key mechanism behind age-related hearing loss, and they say a common oral medication could delay its progression. In a study&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131987"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}