{"id":203902,"date":"2025-01-16T20:22:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T02:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/nanoparticles-reverse-parkinsons-in-mice-by-healing-damaged-dopamine-cells"},"modified":"2025-01-16T20:22:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T02:22:53","slug":"nanoparticles-reverse-parkinsons-in-mice-by-healing-damaged-dopamine-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/nanoparticles-reverse-parkinsons-in-mice-by-healing-damaged-dopamine-cells","title":{"rendered":"Nanoparticles Reverse Parkinson\u2019s in Mice by Healing Damaged Dopamine Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoparticles-reverse-parkinsons-in-mice-by-healing-damaged-dopamine-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stimulating dopamine-producing brain cells wirelessly with gold nanoparticles has proven effective at treating mice with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/parkinsons-disease\">Parkinson\u2019s disease<\/a>, even reversing a portion of their neurological damage.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China (NCNST) say it\u2019s a significant step forward for using brain simulation to tackle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IYl\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Parkinson\u2019s<\/a> in humans, a neurodegenerative condition that affects <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parkinson.org\/understanding-parkinsons\/statistics\">more than 10 million people<\/a> worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Deep inside the brains of those with the condition, dopamine-producing neurons take a major hit as insoluable clumps of a protein called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alpha-synuclein\">alpha-synuclein<\/a> accumulate, gradually depriving patients of an ability to control their movements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stimulating dopamine-producing brain cells wirelessly with gold nanoparticles has proven effective at treating mice with Parkinson\u2019s disease, even reversing a portion of their neurological damage. Researchers from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China (NCNST) say it\u2019s a significant step forward for using brain simulation to tackle Parkinson\u2019s in humans, a neurodegenerative condition [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203902","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}