{"id":219438,"date":"2025-08-05T08:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/metabolic-signals-in-neurons-determine-whether-axons-degrade-or-resist-neurodegeneration-study-finds"},"modified":"2025-08-05T08:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:05:15","slug":"metabolic-signals-in-neurons-determine-whether-axons-degrade-or-resist-neurodegeneration-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/metabolic-signals-in-neurons-determine-whether-axons-degrade-or-resist-neurodegeneration-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Metabolic signals in neurons determine whether axons degrade or resist neurodegeneration, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/metabolic-signals-in-neurons-determine-whether-axons-degrade-or-resist-neurodegeneration-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unlike most cells in the human body, neurons\u2014the functional cells of our nervous system\u2014cannot typically replace themselves with healthy copies after being damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, after an injury from something like a stroke, concussion or neurodegenerative disease, neurons and their axons, fiber-like projections that relay <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/electrical+signals\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical signals<\/a>, are far more likely to degrade than regenerate.<\/p>\n<p>But new research from the University of Michigan opens new ways to think about neurodegeneration that could help protect patients against that degradation and neurological decline in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike most cells in the human body, neurons\u2014the functional cells of our nervous system\u2014cannot typically replace themselves with healthy copies after being damaged. Rather, after an injury from something like a stroke, concussion or neurodegenerative disease, neurons and their axons, fiber-like projections that relay electrical signals, are far more likely to degrade than regenerate. But [\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-219438","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\/219438","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=219438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}