{"id":238396,"date":"2026-06-05T02:44:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/activity-dependent-protein-synthesis-in-neurons-requires-microglial-metabolic-coupling"},"modified":"2026-06-05T02:44:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:44:34","slug":"activity-dependent-protein-synthesis-in-neurons-requires-microglial-metabolic-coupling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/activity-dependent-protein-synthesis-in-neurons-requires-microglial-metabolic-coupling","title":{"rendered":"Activity-dependent protein synthesis in neurons requires microglial-metabolic coupling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/activity-dependent-protein-synthesis-in-neurons-requires-microglial-metabolic-coupling2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During learning, the brain requires an exceptional amount of glucose to be imported into specific neural circuits, where it is used to form new memory-related proteins. Adler et al. discover that microglia, the resident immune cells of the brain, are critical for this process via a mechanism called microglial-metabolic coupling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During learning, the brain requires an exceptional amount of glucose to be imported into specific neural circuits, where it is used to form new memory-related proteins. Adler et al. discover that microglia, the resident immune cells of the brain, are critical for this process via a mechanism called microglial-metabolic coupling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238396","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=238396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}