{"id":224492,"date":"2025-11-04T13:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/young-immune-cells-partly-reverse-alzheimers-symptoms-in-mice"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:06:10","slug":"young-immune-cells-partly-reverse-alzheimers-symptoms-in-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/young-immune-cells-partly-reverse-alzheimers-symptoms-in-mice","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Young\u2019 Immune Cells Partly Reverse Alzheimer\u2019s Symptoms in Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/young-immune-cells-partly-reverse-alzheimers-symptoms-in-mice.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Specially engineered \u2018young\u2019 immune cells could help to reverse the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/study-reveals-critical-age-when-your-thinking-begins-to-decline\">effects of aging<\/a> and the damage to brain cells caused by diseases such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a>, according to a new study in mice.<\/p>\n<p>In their natural state, these immune cells are known as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mononuclear_phagocyte_system\">mononuclear phagocytes<\/a>, and they flow around the body, cleaning up waste.<\/p>\n<p>As we get older, however, these immune-cell cleaners <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.imlet.2020.12.003\">get a bit sloppy<\/a>, clearing away less cellular debris and triggering more inflammation than before. Inflammation and protein aggregation are features of many age-related diseases, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-signal-hidden-in-the-brain-may-reveal-alzheimers-years-in-advance\">including Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specially engineered \u2018young\u2019 immune cells could help to reverse the effects of aging and the damage to brain cells caused by diseases such as Alzheimer\u2019s, according to a new study in mice. In their natural state, these immune cells are known as mononuclear phagocytes, and they flow around the body, cleaning up waste. As we [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224492","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=224492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}