{"id":240294,"date":"2026-07-05T00:13:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/two-people-with-severe-autoimmune-disease-in-remission-after-immune-reset"},"modified":"2026-07-05T00:13:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:13:23","slug":"two-people-with-severe-autoimmune-disease-in-remission-after-immune-reset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/two-people-with-severe-autoimmune-disease-in-remission-after-immune-reset","title":{"rendered":"Two People With Severe Autoimmune Disease in Remission After Immune \u2018Reset\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-people-with-severe-autoimmune-disease-in-remission-after-immune-reset.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The severe and aggressive autoimmune disease known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/neuromyelitis-optica\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20375652\">neuromyelitis optica<\/a> (NMO) just met a new match.<\/p>\n<p>Without treatment, NMO can lead to serious disability, as rogue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/antibody\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">antibodies<\/a> (AQP4-IgG) destroy the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/genetic-tweaks-in-astrocytes-could-be-key-to-alzheimers-treatment\">astrocyte support cells<\/a> in the brain and spinal cord.<\/p>\n<p>Therapies do exist to manage the condition, but they\u2019re expensive, not always effective, and come with risks of their own \u2013 and relapses are common.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The severe and aggressive autoimmune disease known as neuromyelitis optica (NMO) just met a new match. Without treatment, NMO can lead to serious disability, as rogue antibodies (AQP4-IgG) destroy the astrocyte support cells in the brain and spinal cord. Therapies do exist to manage the condition, but they\u2019re expensive, not always effective, and come with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240294","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\/240294","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=240294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}