{"id":221294,"date":"2025-09-02T03:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/depression-linked-to-presence-of-immune-cells-in-the-brains-protective-layer"},"modified":"2025-09-02T03:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:26:17","slug":"depression-linked-to-presence-of-immune-cells-in-the-brains-protective-layer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/depression-linked-to-presence-of-immune-cells-in-the-brains-protective-layer","title":{"rendered":"Depression linked to presence of immune cells in the brain\u2019s protective layer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/depression-linked-to-presence-of-immune-cells-in-the-brains-protective-layer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Immune cells released from bone marrow in the skull in response to chronic stress and adversity could play a key role in symptoms of depression and anxiety, say researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery\u2014found in a study in mice\u2014sheds light on the role that inflammation can play in mood disorders and could help in the search for new treatments, in particular for those individuals for whom current treatments are ineffective.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1 billion people will be diagnosed with a mood disorder such as <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/depression\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">depression<\/a> or anxiety at some point in their life. While there may be many underlying causes, <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/chronic+inflammation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chronic inflammation <\/a>\u2014when the body\u2019s immune system stays active for a long time, even when there is no infection or injury to fight\u2014has been linked to depression. This suggests that the immune system may play an important role in the development of mood disorders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immune cells released from bone marrow in the skull in response to chronic stress and adversity could play a key role in symptoms of depression and anxiety, say researchers. The discovery\u2014found in a study in mice\u2014sheds light on the role that inflammation can play in mood disorders and could help in the search for new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221294","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\/221294","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=221294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}