{"id":184535,"date":"2024-03-09T01:32:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/dancing-cells-show-how-the-brain-awakens-from-anesthesia"},"modified":"2024-03-09T01:32:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:32:26","slug":"dancing-cells-show-how-the-brain-awakens-from-anesthesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/dancing-cells-show-how-the-brain-awakens-from-anesthesia","title":{"rendered":"Dancing cells show how the brain awakens from anesthesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dancing-cells-show-how-the-brain-awakens-from-anesthesia3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a Mayo Clinic study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41593-023-01537-8\">Nature Neuroscience<\/a>, the cells that act as the central nervous system\u2019s first line of defense against harm also play a role in helping the brain awaken from anesthesia. This discovery could help pave the way for innovative methods that address post-anesthesia complications.<\/p>\n<p>When coming out of anesthesia, more than one-third of patients can experience either extreme drowsiness or hyperactivity, a side effect called delirium. Mayo researchers found that special immune cells in the brain called microglia can act to shield neurons from the aftereffects of anesthesia to awaken the brain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time we\u2019ve seen microglia enhance and boost <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/neuronal+activity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neuronal activity<\/a> by physically engaging the brain circuits,\u201d says Mayo Clinic neuroscientist Long-Jun Wu, senior author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Mayo Clinic study published in Nature Neuroscience, the cells that act as the central nervous system\u2019s first line of defense against harm also play a role in helping the brain awaken from anesthesia. This discovery could help pave the way for innovative methods that address post-anesthesia complications. When coming out of anesthesia, [\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-184535","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\/184535","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=184535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}