{"id":220541,"date":"2025-08-20T20:07:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T01:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/brain-autopsies-revealed-a-potential-culprit-behind-alzheimers"},"modified":"2025-08-20T20:07:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T01:07:33","slug":"brain-autopsies-revealed-a-potential-culprit-behind-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/brain-autopsies-revealed-a-potential-culprit-behind-alzheimers","title":{"rendered":"Brain Autopsies Revealed a Potential Culprit Behind Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-autopsies-revealed-a-potential-culprit-behind-alzheimers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have revealed that immune cells in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> brains behave differently from those in brains of people without the disease \u2013 a discovery that could lead to new treatments.<\/p>\n<p>Published in 2023, an analysis of human brain tissue discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microglia\">microglia<\/a> in the brains of people with Alzheimer\u2019s were more frequently in a pre-inflammatory state, making them less likely to be protective.<\/p>\n<p>Microglia are immune cells that help keep our brains healthy by clearing waste and preserving normal brain function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have revealed that immune cells in Alzheimer\u2019s brains behave differently from those in brains of people without the disease \u2013 a discovery that could lead to new treatments. Published in 2023, an analysis of human brain tissue discovered microglia in the brains of people with Alzheimer\u2019s were more frequently in a pre-inflammatory state, making [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220541","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\/220541","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=220541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}