{"id":242822,"date":"2026-08-17T21:08:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/youthassociated-protein-timp2-regulates-microglial-state-and-function-in-healthy-and-aged-mice-communications"},"modified":"2026-08-17T21:08:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:08:49","slug":"youthassociated-protein-timp2-regulates-microglial-state-and-function-in-healthy-and-aged-mice-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/youthassociated-protein-timp2-regulates-microglial-state-and-function-in-healthy-and-aged-mice-communications","title":{"rendered":"Youthassociated protein TIMP2 regulates microglial state and function in healthy and aged mice Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/youthassociated-protein-timp2-regulates-microglial-state-and-function-in-healthy-and-aged-mice-communications.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aging disrupts microglial function, but factors that rejuvenate these cells are poorly characterized. Here, the authors show the youth-associated protein TIMP2 revitalizes microglia by altering inflammatory states and restoring phagocytosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aging disrupts microglial function, but factors that rejuvenate these cells are poorly characterized. Here, the authors show the youth-associated protein TIMP2 revitalizes microglia by altering inflammatory states and restoring phagocytosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242822","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=242822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}