{"id":107099,"date":"2020-05-15T10:45:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T17:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/cell-pores-discovery-gives-hope-to-millions-of-brain-and-spinal-cord-injury-patients"},"modified":"2020-05-15T10:45:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T17:45:10","slug":"cell-pores-discovery-gives-hope-to-millions-of-brain-and-spinal-cord-injury-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/cell-pores-discovery-gives-hope-to-millions-of-brain-and-spinal-cord-injury-patients","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cell pores\u2019 discovery gives hope to millions of brain and spinal cord injury patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cell-pores-discovery-gives-hope-to-millions-of-brain-and-spinal-cord-injury-patients2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered a new treatment to dramatically reduce swelling after brain and spinal cord injuries, offering hope to 75 million victims worldwide each year.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough in treating such injuries\u2014referred to as central nervous system (CNS) edema\u2014is thought to be hugely significant because current options are limited to putting patients in an induced coma or performing risky surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Brain and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/spinal+cord+injuries\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">spinal cord injuries<\/a> affect all age groups. Older people are more at risk of sustaining them from strokes or falls, while for younger age groups, major causes include road traffic accidents and injuries from sports such as rugby, US-style football and other contact games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered a new treatment to dramatically reduce swelling after brain and spinal cord injuries, offering hope to 75 million victims worldwide each year. The breakthrough in treating such injuries\u2014referred to as central nervous system (CNS) edema\u2014is thought to be hugely significant because current options are limited to putting patients in an induced coma [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107099","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}