{"id":214502,"date":"2025-05-22T13:03:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/study-finds-zombie-neurons-in-the-peripheral-nervous-system-contribute-to-chronic-pain"},"modified":"2025-05-22T13:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:03:20","slug":"study-finds-zombie-neurons-in-the-peripheral-nervous-system-contribute-to-chronic-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/study-finds-zombie-neurons-in-the-peripheral-nervous-system-contribute-to-chronic-pain","title":{"rendered":"Study finds \u201czombie\u201d neurons in the peripheral nervous system contribute to chronic pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-finds-zombie-neurons-in-the-peripheral-nervous-system-contribute-to-chronic-pain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered that senescent sensory neurons accumulate with age and nerve injury, releasing inflammatory molecules that heighten pain sensitivity. The findings suggest that targeting these dysfunctional cells could reduce chronic pain, particularly in older adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered that senescent sensory neurons accumulate with age and nerve injury, releasing inflammatory molecules that heighten pain sensitivity. The findings suggest that targeting these dysfunctional cells could reduce chronic pain, particularly in older adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214502","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}