{"id":241078,"date":"2026-07-17T12:10:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/ovaries-may-take-on-job-in-immune-system-after-their-tenure-as-reproductive-organs"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:10:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:10:28","slug":"ovaries-may-take-on-job-in-immune-system-after-their-tenure-as-reproductive-organs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/ovaries-may-take-on-job-in-immune-system-after-their-tenure-as-reproductive-organs","title":{"rendered":"Ovaries may take on job in immune system after their tenure as reproductive organs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ovaries-may-take-on-job-in-immune-system-after-their-tenure-as-reproductive-organs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For most women, the body begins to change dramatically in their 40s or 50s. This transition, known as menopause, is defined as 12 consecutive months without a menstrual period, marking the end of the reproductive years. While researchers are aware of the functions the ovaries perform during active reproductive years, what happens to the organ after menopause is largely a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study in Molecular Human Reproduction investigated what happens to the ovary in mice after it stops producing eggs, a period known as the post-reproductive stage, similar to menopause in humans.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers found that even after the ovary can no longer support reproduction, it doesn\u2019t simply become inactive. Instead, aging ovaries undergo remarkable changes, producing a different set of signaling molecules from those of younger ovaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most women, the body begins to change dramatically in their 40s or 50s. This transition, known as menopause, is defined as 12 consecutive months without a menstrual period, marking the end of the reproductive years. While researchers are aware of the functions the ovaries perform during active reproductive years, what happens to the organ [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241078","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}