{"id":140187,"date":"2022-06-06T01:22:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T06:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/neural-poisonous-flowers-could-be-the-source-of-alzheimers-plaque-says-study"},"modified":"2022-06-06T01:22:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T06:22:43","slug":"neural-poisonous-flowers-could-be-the-source-of-alzheimers-plaque-says-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/neural-poisonous-flowers-could-be-the-source-of-alzheimers-plaque-says-study","title":{"rendered":"Neural \u2018Poisonous Flowers\u2019 Could Be The Source of Alzheimer\u2019s Plaque, Says Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neural-poisonous-flowers-could-be-the-source-of-alzheimers-plaque-says-study3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/alzheimer-s-disease\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Alzheimer's\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> disease has long thwarted our best efforts to pinpoint its underlying causes. Now, a new study in mice suggests that \u2018poisonous flowers\u2019 bulging with cellular debris could be the root source of one hallmark of the wretched disease and a beautifully sinister sign of a failing waste disposal system inside damaged brain cells.<\/p>\n<p>The study, led by neuroscientist Ju-Hyun Lee of New York University (NYU) Langone, challenges the long-standing idea that the build-up of a protein called amyloid-beta between neurons is a crucial first step in Alzheimer\u2019s disease, the most common form of dementia.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it suggests that damage to neurons may take root inside cells well before amyloid plaques fully form and clump together in the brain, a finding which could provide new therapeutic possibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alzheimer\u2019s disease has long thwarted our best efforts to pinpoint its underlying causes. Now, a new study in mice suggests that \u2018poisonous flowers\u2019 bulging with cellular debris could be the root source of one hallmark of the wretched disease and a beautifully sinister sign of a failing waste disposal system inside damaged brain cells. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140187","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\/140187","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}