{"id":126361,"date":"2021-08-16T15:37:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T22:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/brain-gene-expression-patterns-altered"},"modified":"2021-08-23T23:06:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T06:06:48","slug":"brain-gene-expression-patterns-altered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/brain-gene-expression-patterns-altered","title":{"rendered":"Brain Gene Expression Patterns Altered by Chronic Opioid Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-gene-expression-patterns-altered.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Opioid use disorder affects genes associated with proinflammatory immune molecule encoding and genes associated with remodeling the extracellular matrix, suggesting the connection between neurons may be altered as a result of opioid use. Additionally, those with OUD have higher levels of microglia in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Elsevier.<\/p>\n<p>The epidemic of opioid abuse affects millions of people worldwide, but researchers know surprisingly little about the molecular changes caused by opioids in the human brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Opioid use disorder affects genes associated with proinflammatory immune molecule encoding and genes associated with remodeling the extracellular matrix, suggesting the connection between neurons may be altered as a result of opioid use. Additionally, those with OUD have higher levels of microglia in the brain. Source: Elsevier. The epidemic of opioid abuse affects millions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126361","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=126361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126677,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126361\/revisions\/126677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}