{"id":126687,"date":"2021-08-24T08:22:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T15:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/prozac-changes-fat-composition-of-the-brain"},"modified":"2021-08-24T08:22:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T15:22:52","slug":"prozac-changes-fat-composition-of-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/prozac-changes-fat-composition-of-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Prozac Changes Fat Composition of the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/prozac-changes-fat-composition-of-the-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lipids are abundant in the brain, where they are found not just in the cell membranes of neurons, whose properties they modulate, but also in the so-called myelin sheaths insulating axons \u2014 the brain\u2019s \u2018wiring.\u2019 The brain is therefore a surprisingly \u2018fat\u2019 organ \u2014 in fact, it is nearly 60% fat, the study\u2019s first author, Anna Tkachev from Skoltech, said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong><em>Summary: <\/em><\/strong><em>Prozac reduced polyunsaturated fatty acid lipid concentrations in the brains of juvenile macaque monkeys.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source: <\/em><\/strong><em>Skoltech<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from Russia, Germany, and the U.S. have found Prozac to reduce lipid concentrations in juvenile macaques who received the antidepressant for two years, compared to a control group of untreated animals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While none of the monkeys in the study were depressed, the findings still offer a plausible biochemical explanation for the drug\u2019s side effects, particularly in young patients. The paper was published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lipids are abundant in the brain, where they are found not just in the cell membranes of neurons, whose properties they modulate, but also in the so-called myelin sheaths insulating axons \u2014 the brain\u2019s \u2018wiring.\u2019 The brain is therefore a surprisingly \u2018fat\u2019 organ \u2014 in fact, it is nearly 60% fat, the study\u2019s first author, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126687","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=126687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}