{"id":120995,"date":"2021-03-29T11:47:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/zombie-genes-research-shows-some-genes-come-to-life-in-the-brain-after-death"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:47:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:47:48","slug":"zombie-genes-research-shows-some-genes-come-to-life-in-the-brain-after-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/zombie-genes-research-shows-some-genes-come-to-life-in-the-brain-after-death","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Zombie\u2019 genes? Research shows some genes come to life in the brain after death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/zombie-genes-research-shows-some-genes-come-to-life-in-the-brain-after-death2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Studies on postmortem tissue may need to adjust for postmortem cell activity.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In the hours after we die, certain cells in the human brain are still active. Some cells even increase their activity and grow to gargantuan proportions, according to new research from the University of Illinois Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>In a newly published study in the journal <i>Scientific Reports<\/i>, the UIC researchers analyzed gene expression in fresh brain tissue \u2014 which was collected during routine brain surgery \u2014 at multiple times after removal to simulate the post-mortem interval and death. They found that gene expression in some cells actually increased after death.<\/p>\n<p>These \u2018zombie genes\u2019 \u2014 those that increased expression after the post-mortem interval \u2014 were specific to one type of cell: inflammatory cells called glial cells. The researchers observed that glial cells grow and sprout long arm-like appendages for many hours after death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studies on postmortem tissue may need to adjust for postmortem cell activity. In the hours after we die, certain cells in the human brain are still active. Some cells even increase their activity and grow to gargantuan proportions, according to new research from the University of Illinois Chicago. In a newly published study in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120995","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\/120995","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}