{"id":232536,"date":"2026-03-04T01:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/tiny-blood-smidges-in-the-brain-amount-and-location-tied-to-dementia"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:37:15","slug":"tiny-blood-smidges-in-the-brain-amount-and-location-tied-to-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/tiny-blood-smidges-in-the-brain-amount-and-location-tied-to-dementia","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Blood Smidges in the Brain: Amount and Location Tied to Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-blood-smidges-in-the-brain-amount-and-location-tied-to-dementia2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ploidy and neuron size impact nervous system development and function in Xenopus.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Liu et al. use triploid <i>Xenopus<\/i> as a model to characterize effects of neuron size on vertebrate nervous system development and function. They report association between neuron size, cell proliferation, brain activity, and tadpole swimming behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ploidy and neuron size impact nervous system development and function in Xenopus. Liu et al. use triploid Xenopus as a model to characterize effects of neuron size on vertebrate nervous system development and function. They report association between neuron size, cell proliferation, brain activity, and tadpole swimming behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232536","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\/232536","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}