{"id":188651,"date":"2024-05-04T04:23:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T09:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/new-hope-for-neurological-disorders-scientists-have-discovered-how-an-essential-nutrient-enters-the-brain"},"modified":"2024-05-04T04:23:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T09:23:58","slug":"new-hope-for-neurological-disorders-scientists-have-discovered-how-an-essential-nutrient-enters-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/new-hope-for-neurological-disorders-scientists-have-discovered-how-an-essential-nutrient-enters-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"New Hope for Neurological Disorders: Scientists Have Discovered How an Essential Nutrient Enters the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-hope-for-neurological-disorders-scientists-have-discovered-how-an-essential-nutrient-enters-the-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers have discovered the process by which dietary choline crosses the blood-brain barrier. This breakthrough has potential applications in enhancing drug delivery to the brain for treating neurological disorders.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A researcher from the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-queensland\/\">University of Queensland<\/a> has identified molecular doorways that could facilitate the delivery of drugs to the brain for treating neurological disorders.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rosemary Cater from UQ\u2019s Institute for Molecular Bioscience led a team that discovered that an essential nutrient called choline is transported into the brain by a protein called FLVCR2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered the process by which dietary choline crosses the blood-brain barrier. This breakthrough has potential applications in enhancing drug delivery to the brain for treating neurological disorders. A researcher from the University of Queensland has identified molecular doorways that could facilitate the delivery of drugs to the brain for treating neurological disorders. Dr. [\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-188651","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\/188651","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=188651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}