{"id":118856,"date":"2021-01-25T10:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T18:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/ginger-may-counter-some-autoimmune-diseases-says-new-study"},"modified":"2021-01-25T10:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T18:22:47","slug":"ginger-may-counter-some-autoimmune-diseases-says-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/ginger-may-counter-some-autoimmune-diseases-says-new-study","title":{"rendered":"Ginger may counter some autoimmune diseases, says new study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ginger-may-counter-some-autoimmune-diseases-says-new-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the researchers looked at lupus, which attacks the body\u2019s own immune system, along with antiphospholipid syndrome (often associated with lupus), which causes blood clots. Both the diseases cause widespread inflammation and ravage organs overtime. In mice with either of the disease, 6-gingerol stopped the neutrophil extracellular trap release caused by the diseases\u2019 production of autoantibodies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeutrophil extracellular traps, or NETs, come from <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/white+blood+cells\/\" target=\"_blank\">white blood cells<\/a> called neutrophils,\u201d explained lead author Ramadan Ali, Ph.D <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2021-01-ginger-counters-autoimmune-diseases-mice.html\" target=\"_blank\">in a press release<\/a>. \u201cThese sticky spider-web like structures are formed when autoantibodies interact with receptors on the neutrophil\u2019s surface.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The webs, according to Ali, play a fundamental role in the pathogenesis of lupus and antiphospholipid syndrome in which they set off autoantibody formation and contribute to clots in blood vessels and other damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specifically, the researchers looked at lupus, which attacks the body\u2019s own immune system, along with antiphospholipid syndrome (often associated with lupus), which causes blood clots. Both the diseases cause widespread inflammation and ravage organs overtime. In mice with either of the disease, 6-gingerol stopped the neutrophil extracellular trap release caused by the diseases\u2019 production of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118856","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}