{"id":245075,"date":"2026-10-08T21:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/drug-target-could-block-brain-inflammation-linked-to-alzheimers-and-parkinsons"},"modified":"2026-10-08T21:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:07:16","slug":"drug-target-could-block-brain-inflammation-linked-to-alzheimers-and-parkinsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/drug-target-could-block-brain-inflammation-linked-to-alzheimers-and-parkinsons","title":{"rendered":"Drug target could block brain inflammation linked to Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drug-target-could-block-brain-inflammation-linked-to-alzheimers-and-parkinsons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blocking a receptor called P2X7 significantly reduced inflammation in human brain tissue, revealing a potential new treatment strategy for neurological and psychiatric disorders. The discovery could help researchers repurpose existing drugs for conditions including traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer\u2019s, Parkinson\u2019s, depression, and schizophrenia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blocking a receptor called P2X7 significantly reduced inflammation in human brain tissue, revealing a potential new treatment strategy for neurological and psychiatric disorders. The discovery could help researchers repurpose existing drugs for conditions including traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer\u2019s, Parkinson\u2019s, depression, and schizophrenia.<\/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-245075","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\/245075","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=245075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}