{"id":226254,"date":"2025-12-02T00:02:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/switch-turns-brains-defenses-into-protectors-against-alzheimers"},"modified":"2025-12-02T00:02:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:02:52","slug":"switch-turns-brains-defenses-into-protectors-against-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/switch-turns-brains-defenses-into-protectors-against-alzheimers","title":{"rendered":"Switch Turns Brain\u2019s Defenses Into Protectors Against Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/switch-turns-brains-defenses-into-protectors-against-alzheimers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Specific immune cells in the brain may play a crucial role in preventing the onset of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/alzheimer-s-disease\">Alzheimer\u2019s disease<\/a>, according to a new study \u2013 a discovery that could lead to new therapies that try to coax cells into this protective state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cell.2018.05.003\">Earlier studies<\/a> have shown that immune cells in the brain called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microglia\">microglia<\/a> can effectively tackle the symptoms of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a>, but also make them worse through inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>Here, an international team of scientists took a detailed look at how microglia switch between those two helpful and harmful modes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specific immune cells in the brain may play a crucial role in preventing the onset of Alzheimer\u2019s disease, according to a new study \u2013 a discovery that could lead to new therapies that try to coax cells into this protective state. Earlier studies have shown that immune cells in the brain called microglia can effectively [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226254","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\/226254","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=226254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}