{"id":174236,"date":"2023-10-15T05:24:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T10:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/multiple-sclerosis-how-blocking-central-t-cells-may-help-treat-ms"},"modified":"2023-10-15T05:24:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T10:24:04","slug":"multiple-sclerosis-how-blocking-central-t-cells-may-help-treat-ms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/multiple-sclerosis-how-blocking-central-t-cells-may-help-treat-ms","title":{"rendered":"Multiple sclerosis: How blocking central T cells may help treat MS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/multiple-sclerosis-how-blocking-central-t-cells-may-help-treat-ms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It might be possible to stop or slow the autoimmune progression of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/37556\" class=\"\">multiple sclerosis<\/a> (MS) by deleting a receptor in the central nervous system, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1126\/sciimmunol.adg7597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"\">study<\/a> published today in the journal <em>Science Immunology<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Using mouse models, researchers reported that deleting a receptor that selectively targets a specific type of T cells stopped them from entering the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/307076\" class=\"\">central nervous system<\/a> while allowing other T cells to penetrate and protect the body from pathogens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might be possible to stop or slow the autoimmune progression of multiple sclerosis (MS) by deleting a receptor in the central nervous system, according to a study published today in the journal Science Immunology. Using mouse models, researchers reported that deleting a receptor that selectively targets a specific type of T cells stopped them [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174236","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\/174236","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}