{"id":238111,"date":"2026-06-01T02:06:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/researchers-block-key-protein-that-helps-parkinsons-spread-through-the-brain"},"modified":"2026-06-01T02:06:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:06:55","slug":"researchers-block-key-protein-that-helps-parkinsons-spread-through-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/researchers-block-key-protein-that-helps-parkinsons-spread-through-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Researchers block key protein that helps Parkinson\u2019s spread through the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-block-key-protein-that-helps-parkinsons-spread-through-the-brain.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly identified protein called GPNMB may play a major role in helping Parkinson\u2019s disease spread through the brain. Researchers discovered that immune cells release the protein in response to damaged neurons, creating a vicious cycle that speeds up brain cell degeneration. In early experiments, antibodies that blocked GPNMB stopped the toxic process from spreading between cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly identified protein called GPNMB may play a major role in helping Parkinson\u2019s disease spread through the brain. Researchers discovered that immune cells release the protein in response to damaged neurons, creating a vicious cycle that speeds up brain cell degeneration. In early experiments, antibodies that blocked GPNMB stopped the toxic process from spreading [\u2026]<\/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-238111","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\/238111","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=238111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}