{"id":193598,"date":"2024-07-26T04:29:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T09:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/microglia-rescue-neurons-from-aggregate-induced-neuronal-dysfunction-and-death-through-tunneling-nanotubes"},"modified":"2024-07-26T04:29:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T09:29:34","slug":"microglia-rescue-neurons-from-aggregate-induced-neuronal-dysfunction-and-death-through-tunneling-nanotubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/microglia-rescue-neurons-from-aggregate-induced-neuronal-dysfunction-and-death-through-tunneling-nanotubes","title":{"rendered":"Microglia rescue neurons from aggregate-induced neuronal dysfunction and death through tunneling nanotubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microglia-rescue-neurons-from-aggregate-induced-neuronal-dysfunction-and-death-through-tunneling-nanotubes3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a recent study published in Neuron, researchers discovered that microglia, the brain\u2019s immune cells, use tunneling nanotubes\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scheiblich et al. uncover a novel mechanism by which microglia use tunneling nanotubes to connect with \u03b1-syn-or tau-burdened neurons, enabling transfer of these proteins to microglia for clearance. Microglia donate mitochondria to restore neuronal health, shedding light on new therapeutic strategies for neurodegenerative diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent study published in Neuron, researchers discovered that microglia, the brain\u2019s immune cells, use tunneling nanotubes\u2026 Scheiblich et al. uncover a novel mechanism by which microglia use tunneling nanotubes to connect with \u03b1-syn-or tau-burdened neurons, enabling transfer of these proteins to microglia for clearance. Microglia donate mitochondria to restore neuronal health, shedding light [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193598","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}