{"id":211135,"date":"2025-04-11T01:22:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/affecting-millions-scientists-discover-key-to-treating-painful-dry-mouth-disorder"},"modified":"2025-04-11T01:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:22:22","slug":"affecting-millions-scientists-discover-key-to-treating-painful-dry-mouth-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/affecting-millions-scientists-discover-key-to-treating-painful-dry-mouth-disorder","title":{"rendered":"Affecting Millions: Scientists Discover Key to Treating Painful Dry Mouth Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/affecting-millions-scientists-discover-key-to-treating-painful-dry-mouth-disorder.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have identified tricellulin loss as the root cause of dry mouth in Sj\u00f6gren\u2019s syndrome, and successfully reversed it in lab models. A major breakthrough has identified the loss of a crucial \u201cgatekeeper\u201d protein as the underlying cause of dry mouth in Sj\u00f6gren\u2019s syndrome, a discovery that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have identified tricellulin loss as the root cause of dry mouth in Sj\u00f6gren\u2019s syndrome, and successfully reversed it in lab models. A major breakthrough has identified the loss of a crucial \u201cgatekeeper\u201d protein as the underlying cause of dry mouth in Sj\u00f6gren\u2019s syndrome, a discovery that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211135","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=211135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}