{"id":104047,"date":"2020-03-20T14:42:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T21:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/natural-killer-cells-could-halt-parkinsons-progression"},"modified":"2020-03-20T14:42:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T21:42:51","slug":"natural-killer-cells-could-halt-parkinsons-progression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/natural-killer-cells-could-halt-parkinsons-progression","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Natural Killer\u2019 Cells could halt Parkinson\u2019s Progression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/natural-killer-cells-could-halt-parkinsons-progression2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Georgia\u2019s Regenerative Bioscience Center and their colleagues have found that \u201cnatural killer\u201d white blood cells could guard against the cascade of cellular changes that lead to Parkinson\u2019s disease and help stop its progression.<\/p>\n<p>Natural killer (NK) cells are white blood cells that can kill tumors without being \u201ctold\u201d from the body to do so. NK cells provide the first line of defense against invasion or a virus and are equipped with activating receptors that can sense cellular stress and identify cells that have been altered due to infection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now there\u2019s no available therapy to modify or stop the progression of Parkinson\u2019s,\u201d said lead author Jae-Kyung \u201cJamise\u201d Lee, assistant professor in UGA\u2019s College of Veterinary Medicine. \u201cThis would be the first NK study to show the possibility of actually stopping the disease.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Georgia\u2019s Regenerative Bioscience Center and their colleagues have found that \u201cnatural killer\u201d white blood cells could guard against the cascade of cellular changes that lead to Parkinson\u2019s disease and help stop its progression. Natural killer (NK) cells are white blood cells that can kill tumors without being \u201ctold\u201d from the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}