{"id":135914,"date":"2022-02-21T10:22:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T18:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/brains-ability-to-clear-protein-linked-to-alzheimers-disease-controlled-by-circadian-cycle"},"modified":"2022-02-21T10:22:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T18:22:33","slug":"brains-ability-to-clear-protein-linked-to-alzheimers-disease-controlled-by-circadian-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/brains-ability-to-clear-protein-linked-to-alzheimers-disease-controlled-by-circadian-cycle","title":{"rendered":"Brain\u2019s Ability To Clear Protein Linked to Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Controlled by Circadian Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brains-ability-to-clear-protein-linked-to-alzheimers-disease-controlled-by-circadian-cycle2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> Ability of immune system to destroy Alzheimer\u2019s-related protein oscillates with daily circadian rhythm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The brain\u2019s ability to clear a protein closely linked to Alzheimer\u2019s disease is tied to our circadian cycle, according to research published recently in <i>PLOS Genetics<\/i>. The research underscores the importance of healthy sleep habits in preventing the protein Amyloid-Beta 42 (AB42) from forming clumps in the brain, and opens a path to potential Alzheimer\u2019s therapies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCircadian regulation of immune cells plays a role in the intricate relationship between the circadian clock and Alzheimer\u2019s disease,\u201d said Jennifer Hurley, an expert in circadian rhythms, and associate professor of biological science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. \u201cThis tells us a healthy sleep pattern might be important to alleviate some of the symptoms in Alzheimer\u2019s disease, and this beneficial effect might be imparted by an immune cell type called macrophages\/microglia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ability of immune system to destroy Alzheimer\u2019s-related protein oscillates with daily circadian rhythm. The brain\u2019s ability to clear a protein closely linked to Alzheimer\u2019s disease is tied to our circadian cycle, according to research published recently in PLOS Genetics. The research underscores the importance of healthy sleep habits in preventing the protein Amyloid-Beta 42 (AB42) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135914","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\/135914","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=135914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}