{"id":152437,"date":"2022-12-10T17:26:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T23:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/harnessing-the-brains-immune-cells-to-stave-off-alzheimers-and-other-neurodegenerative-diseases"},"modified":"2022-12-10T17:26:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T23:26:14","slug":"harnessing-the-brains-immune-cells-to-stave-off-alzheimers-and-other-neurodegenerative-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/harnessing-the-brains-immune-cells-to-stave-off-alzheimers-and-other-neurodegenerative-diseases","title":{"rendered":"Harnessing the Brain\u2019s Immune Cells to Stave off Alzheimer\u2019s and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/harnessing-the-brains-immune-cells-to-stave-off-alzheimers-and-other-neurodegenerative-diseases.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Researchers have identified a protein that could be leveraged to help microglia in the brain stave off Alzheimer\u2019s and other neurodegenerative diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Conversation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/news-events\/congressional-testimony\/path-forward-advancing-treatments-and-cures-neurodegenerative-diseases-07292021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Many neurodegenerative diseases<\/a>, or conditions that result from the loss of function or death of brain cells, remain largely untreatable. Most available treatments target <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/d41586-018-05719-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">just one of the multiple processes<\/a> that can lead to neurodegeneration, which may not be effective in completely addressing disease symptoms or progress, if at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Researchers have identified a protein that could be leveraged to help microglia in the brain stave off Alzheimer\u2019s and other neurodegenerative diseases. Source: The Conversation. Many neurodegenerative diseases, or conditions that result from the loss of function or death of brain cells, remain largely untreatable. Most available treatments target just one of the multiple [\u2026]<\/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-152437","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\/152437","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=152437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}