{"id":180401,"date":"2024-01-13T06:29:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T12:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/the-brains-secret-handshake-research-reveals-function-of-little-understood-synapse"},"modified":"2024-01-13T06:29:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T12:29:57","slug":"the-brains-secret-handshake-research-reveals-function-of-little-understood-synapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/the-brains-secret-handshake-research-reveals-function-of-little-understood-synapse","title":{"rendered":"The Brain\u2019s Secret Handshake: Research Reveals Function of Little-Understood Synapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-brains-secret-handshake-research-reveals-function-of-little-understood-synapse2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discovery could be useful in developing new therapies for multiple sclerosis, neurodegenerative conditions, and brain cancer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New research from Oregon Health &amp; Science University for the first time reveals the function of a little-understood junction between cells in the brain that could have important treatment implications for conditions ranging from multiple sclerosis to Alzheimer\u2019s disease, to a type of brain cancer known as glioma.<\/p>\n<p>The study will be published today (January 12) in the journal <em>Nature Neuroscience<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovery could be useful in developing new therapies for multiple sclerosis, neurodegenerative conditions, and brain cancer. New research from Oregon Health &amp; Science University for the first time reveals the function of a little-understood junction between cells in the brain that could have important treatment implications for conditions ranging from multiple sclerosis to Alzheimer\u2019s disease, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180401","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\/180401","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}