{"id":113495,"date":"2020-09-27T10:23:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T17:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/a-genetic-variant-that-protects-against-alzheimers-promotes-immune-cell-functions"},"modified":"2020-09-27T10:23:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T17:23:43","slug":"a-genetic-variant-that-protects-against-alzheimers-promotes-immune-cell-functions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/a-genetic-variant-that-protects-against-alzheimers-promotes-immune-cell-functions","title":{"rendered":"A Genetic Variant That Protects Against Alzheimer\u2019s Promotes Immune Cell Functions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-genetic-variant-that-protects-against-alzheimers-promotes-immune-cell-functions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: PLCG2-P522R, a genetic variant that protects against Alzheimer\u2019s disease, enhances key functions of immune cells.<\/p>\n<p>Source: University of Eastern Finland<\/p>\n<p>A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Eastern Finland found that the PLCG2-P522R genetic variant, which protects against Alzheimer\u2019s disease, enhances several key functions of immune cells. The results obtained in the study highlight the importance of immune cells as a target of future development of new therapies for Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: PLCG2-P522R, a genetic variant that protects against Alzheimer\u2019s disease, enhances key functions of immune cells. Source: University of Eastern Finland A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Eastern Finland found that the PLCG2-P522R genetic variant, which protects against Alzheimer\u2019s disease, enhances several key functions of immune cells. The results obtained in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113495","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=113495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}