{"id":145126,"date":"2022-08-29T18:24:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T23:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/protein-traffic-jam-in-neurons-linked-to-neurodegeneration"},"modified":"2022-08-29T18:24:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T23:24:58","slug":"protein-traffic-jam-in-neurons-linked-to-neurodegeneration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/protein-traffic-jam-in-neurons-linked-to-neurodegeneration","title":{"rendered":"Protein \u2018Traffic Jam\u2019 in Neurons Linked to Neurodegeneration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/protein-traffic-jam-in-neurons-linked-to-neurodegeneration.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Dampening retromer activity slows down the trafficking of tau in neurodegenerative disorders, a new study reports.<\/p>\n<p>Source: EPFL<\/p>\n<p>Neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s disease are associated with atypical proteins that form tangles in the brain, killing neurons. Neurobiologists at EPFL have now identified some key mechanisms underlying the formation of these tangles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Dampening retromer activity slows down the trafficking of tau in neurodegenerative disorders, a new study reports. Source: EPFL Neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s disease are associated with atypical proteins that form tangles in the brain, killing neurons. Neurobiologists at EPFL have now identified some key mechanisms underlying the formation of these tangles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145126","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\/145126","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}