{"id":236427,"date":"2026-05-03T11:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/micro-managing-immune-activation-and-protein-turnover-microglial-lysosomes-in-the-context-of-health-and-disease"},"modified":"2026-05-03T11:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:10:23","slug":"micro-managing-immune-activation-and-protein-turnover-microglial-lysosomes-in-the-context-of-health-and-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/micro-managing-immune-activation-and-protein-turnover-microglial-lysosomes-in-the-context-of-health-and-disease","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMicro-managing\u201d immune activation and protein turnover: microglial lysosomes in the context of health and disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/micro-managing-immune-activation-and-protein-turnover-microglial-lysosomes-in-the-context-of-health-and-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microglial lysosomes immune activation and protein turnover.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to its role in protein and organelle homeostasis, lysosomes are also involved in nutrient sensing, cell metabolism, immune response, and programmed cell death.<\/p>\n<p>Lysosomes are heterogeneous subpopulations and their dysfunction has been associated with the pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Although lysosomal biogenesis, transport, and heterogeneity are well studied in neurons, the researchers in this review discuss microglial lysosome biology its regulation, composition, and function, and how these properties are linked to immune activation, aging, and certain disease pathologies. sciencenewshighlights <i>Science <\/i>Mission <a href=\"https:\/\/sciencemission.com\/microglial-lysosomes\">https:\/\/sciencemission.com\/microglial-lysosomes<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Npj Dementia \u2014 \u201cMicro-managing\u201d immune activation and protein turnover: microglial lysosomes in the context of health and disease. <i>npj Dement.<\/i> 2, 35 (2026). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s44400-026-00086-8\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s44400-026-00086-8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microglial lysosomes immune activation and protein turnover. In addition to its role in protein and organelle homeostasis, lysosomes are also involved in nutrient sensing, cell metabolism, immune response, and programmed cell death. Lysosomes are heterogeneous subpopulations and their dysfunction has been associated with the pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative diseases. Although lysosomal biogenesis, transport, and heterogeneity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236427","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\/236427","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=236427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}