{"id":145569,"date":"2022-09-03T19:24:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T00:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/axolotls-can-regenerate-their-brains"},"modified":"2022-09-03T19:24:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T00:24:14","slug":"axolotls-can-regenerate-their-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/axolotls-can-regenerate-their-brains","title":{"rendered":"Axolotls Can Regenerate Their Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/axolotls-can-regenerate-their-brains.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Axolotls have the ability to regenerate brain areas following an injury. Researchers have mapped cell types and genes associated with neurodegeneration in the axolotl brain, discovering some similarities in the human brain. The findings could pave the way for new neurodegenerative therapies.<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Conversation.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/amphibians\/facts\/axolotl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">axolotl<\/a> (Ambystoma mexicanum) is an aquatic salamander renowned for its ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1159%2F000504294\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">regenerate its spinal cord, heart and limbs<\/a>. These amphibians also <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/1749-8104-8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">readily make new neurons<\/a> throughout their lives. In 1964, researchers observed that adult axolotls could <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/14248567\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">regenerate parts of their brains<\/a>, even if a large section was completely removed. But one study found that axolotl <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7554\/eLife.13998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">brain regeneration<\/a> has a limited ability to rebuild original tissue structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Axolotls have the ability to regenerate brain areas following an injury. Researchers have mapped cell types and genes associated with neurodegeneration in the axolotl brain, discovering some similarities in the human brain. The findings could pave the way for new neurodegenerative therapies. Source: The Conversation. The axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) is an aquatic salamander renowned [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145569","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=145569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}