{"id":204022,"date":"2025-01-18T12:18:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T18:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/serious-head-trauma-may-awaken-dormant-viruses-inside-your-body"},"modified":"2025-01-18T12:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T18:18:18","slug":"serious-head-trauma-may-awaken-dormant-viruses-inside-your-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/serious-head-trauma-may-awaken-dormant-viruses-inside-your-body","title":{"rendered":"Serious Head Trauma May Awaken Dormant Viruses Inside Your Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/serious-head-trauma-may-awaken-dormant-viruses-inside-your-body3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A serious knock to the head may also deliver an insidious blow to the human immune system \u2013 a one-two punch that could reawaken dormant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/virus\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">viruses<\/a> in the body, potentially contributing to neurodegenerative disease.<\/p>\n<p>A study using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stem-cells\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">stem cell<\/a> \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-grew-stem-cell-mini-brains-and-then-the-brains-sort-of-developed-eyes\">mini brains<\/a>\u2019 has shown that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/herpes-simplex-virus\">herpes simplex virus<\/a> 1 (HSV-1) infection already \u2018arrested\u2019 by the immune system can shake off its shackles when brain tissue is injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought, what would happen if we subjected the brain tissue model to a physical disruption, something akin to a concussion?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/now.tufts.edu\/2025\/01\/07\/head-trauma-may-activate-latent-viruses-brain-leading-neurodegeneration\">says<\/a> biomedical engineer Dana Cairns from Tufts University in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A serious knock to the head may also deliver an insidious blow to the human immune system \u2013 a one-two punch that could reawaken dormant viruses in the body, potentially contributing to neurodegenerative disease. A study using stem cell \u2018mini brains\u2019 has shown that a herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) infection already \u2018arrested\u2019 by the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204022","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\/204022","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}