{"id":126431,"date":"2021-08-18T09:23:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T16:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/histamine-and-inflammation-could-be-key-players-in-depression"},"modified":"2021-08-18T09:23:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T16:23:24","slug":"histamine-and-inflammation-could-be-key-players-in-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/histamine-and-inflammation-could-be-key-players-in-depression","title":{"rendered":"Histamine and Inflammation Could Be Key Players in Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/histamine-and-inflammation-could-be-key-players-in-depression.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is causing chronic inflammation?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong><em>Summary: <\/em><\/strong><em>A new study adds to the growing body of research linking inflammation to depression. Researchers found the molecule histamine directly inhibits the release of serotonin in the brain by attaching to inhibitory receptors on serotonin neurons in mice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source: <\/em><\/strong><em>Imperial College London<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The findings, from researchers at Imperial College London and University of South Carolina, add to mounting evidence that inflammation, and the accompanying release of the molecule histamine, affects a key molecule responsible for mood in the brain \u2013 serotonin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If replicated in humans, the findings \u2013 which identify histamine as a \u2018new molecule of interest\u2019 in depression \u2013 could open new avenues for treating depression, which is the most common mental health problem worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is causing chronic inflammation? Summary: A new study adds to the growing body of research linking inflammation to depression. Researchers found the molecule histamine directly inhibits the release of serotonin in the brain by attaching to inhibitory receptors on serotonin neurons in mice. Source: Imperial College London The findings, from researchers at Imperial College [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126431","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=126431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}