{"id":115582,"date":"2020-11-07T10:22:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T18:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/new-strategies-for-restoring-myelin-on-damaged-nerve-cells"},"modified":"2020-11-07T10:22:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T18:22:44","slug":"new-strategies-for-restoring-myelin-on-damaged-nerve-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/new-strategies-for-restoring-myelin-on-damaged-nerve-cells","title":{"rendered":"New Strategies for Restoring Myelin on Damaged Nerve Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-strategies-for-restoring-myelin-on-damaged-nerve-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Researchers have discovered a two-pronged approach to restore myelin on regenerated axons in a mouse model of optic nerve damage. The findings have positive implications for the treatment of multiple sclerosis.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Children\u2019s Hospital of Boston<\/p>\n<p>Loss of myelin\u2014the fatty substance that surrounds the axons of nerve cells\u2014is one of the reasons nerve cells fail to recover after injury and in some diseases. Myelin acts like insulation, covering the long axon threads that enable high-speed communication between neurons. Without myelin, the neurons may not be able to coordinate well, leading to less than optimal function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Researchers have discovered a two-pronged approach to restore myelin on regenerated axons in a mouse model of optic nerve damage. The findings have positive implications for the treatment of multiple sclerosis. Source: Children\u2019s Hospital of Boston Loss of myelin\u2014the fatty substance that surrounds the axons of nerve cells\u2014is one of the reasons nerve cells [\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-115582","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\/115582","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=115582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}