{"id":178624,"date":"2023-12-19T00:26:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T06:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/brain-autopsies-suggest-a-new-culprit-behind-alzheimers-disease"},"modified":"2023-12-19T00:26:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T06:26:08","slug":"brain-autopsies-suggest-a-new-culprit-behind-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/brain-autopsies-suggest-a-new-culprit-behind-alzheimers-disease","title":{"rendered":"Brain Autopsies Suggest a New Culprit Behind Alzheimer\u2019s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-autopsies-suggest-a-new-culprit-behind-alzheimers-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Analysis of human brain tissue reveals differences in how immune cells behave in brains with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> disease compared to healthy brains, indicating a potential new treatment target.<\/p>\n<p>University of Washington-led research, published in August, discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microglia\">microglia<\/a> in the brains of people with Alzheimer\u2019s disease were in a pre-inflammatory state more frequently, making them less likely to be protective.<\/p>\n<p>Microglia are immune cells that help keep our brains healthy by clearing waste and preserving normal brain function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis of human brain tissue reveals differences in how immune cells behave in brains with Alzheimer\u2019s disease compared to healthy brains, indicating a potential new treatment target. University of Washington-led research, published in August, discovered microglia in the brains of people with Alzheimer\u2019s disease were in a pre-inflammatory state more frequently, making them less likely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178624","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\/178624","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}