{"id":154488,"date":"2023-01-05T22:24:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T04:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/new-immune-culprit-discovered-in-alzheimers-disease"},"modified":"2023-01-05T22:24:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T04:24:53","slug":"new-immune-culprit-discovered-in-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/new-immune-culprit-discovered-in-alzheimers-disease","title":{"rendered":"New immune culprit discovered in Alzheimer\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-immune-culprit-discovered-in-alzheimers-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reason your three-pound brain doesn\u2019t feel heavy is because it floats in a reservoir of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which flows in and around your brain and spinal cord. This liquid barrier between your brain and skull protects it from a hit to your head and bathes your brain in nutrients.<\/p>\n<p>But the CSF has another critical, if less known, function: it also provides <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/immune+protection\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">immune protection<\/a> to the brain. Yet, this function hasn\u2019t been well studied.<\/p>\n<p>A Northwestern Medicine study of CSF has discovered its role in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cognitive+impairment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cognitive impairment<\/a>, such as Alzheimer\u2019s disease. This discovery provides a new clue to the process of neurodegeneration, said study lead author David Gate, assistant professor of neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason your three-pound brain doesn\u2019t feel heavy is because it floats in a reservoir of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which flows in and around your brain and spinal cord. This liquid barrier between your brain and skull protects it from a hit to your head and bathes your brain in nutrients. But the CSF has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154488","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\/154488","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}