{"id":132460,"date":"2021-12-15T12:23:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T20:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/learning-and-protecting-itself-how-the-brain-adapts"},"modified":"2021-12-15T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T20:23:07","slug":"learning-and-protecting-itself-how-the-brain-adapts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/learning-and-protecting-itself-how-the-brain-adapts","title":{"rendered":"Learning and Protecting Itself: How the Brain Adapts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/learning-and-protecting-itself-how-the-brain-adapts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blocking matrix metalloproteinases MMP2 and MMP9 can have the opposite effect on neuroplasticity depending on whether the brain is healthy or injured.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong><em>Summary: <\/em><\/strong><em>Blocking the matrix metalloproteinases MMP2 and MMP9 can have the opposite effect on neuroplasticity depending on whether the brain is healthy or injured.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source: <\/em><\/strong><em>University of Gottingen<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The brain is a remarkably complex and adaptable organ. However, adaptability decreases with age. As new connections between nerve cells in the brain form less easily, the brain\u2019s plasticity decreases.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If there is an injury to the central nervous system, such as after a stroke, the brain needs to compensate by reorganizing itself. To do this, a dense network of molecules between the nerve cells\u2014known as the extracellular matrix\u2014must loosen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blocking matrix metalloproteinases MMP2 and MMP9 can have the opposite effect on neuroplasticity depending on whether the brain is healthy or injured. Summary: Blocking the matrix metalloproteinases MMP2 and MMP9 can have the opposite effect on neuroplasticity depending on whether the brain is healthy or injured. Source: University of Gottingen The brain is a remarkably [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132460","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\/132460","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}