{"id":228021,"date":"2025-12-30T02:06:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/scientists-discover-brain-switches-that-help-clear-alzheimers-plaques"},"modified":"2025-12-30T02:06:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:06:04","slug":"scientists-discover-brain-switches-that-help-clear-alzheimers-plaques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/scientists-discover-brain-switches-that-help-clear-alzheimers-plaques","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover Brain \u201cSwitches\u201d That Help Clear Alzheimer\u2019s Plaques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-brain-switches-that-help-clear-alzheimers-plaques2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Activating two somatostatin receptors enhances amyloid beta breakdown and improves memory in models of Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have uncovered two brain receptors that help regulate how amyloid beta is broke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activating two somatostatin receptors enhances amyloid beta breakdown and improves memory in models of Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have uncovered two brain receptors that help regulate how amyloid beta is broke<\/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-228021","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\/228021","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=228021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}