{"id":25898,"date":"2016-05-19T22:32:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T05:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/immune-cells-thought-to-trigger-dementia-actually-protect-against-it"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:59:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:59:07","slug":"immune-cells-thought-to-trigger-dementia-actually-protect-against-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/immune-cells-thought-to-trigger-dementia-actually-protect-against-it","title":{"rendered":"Immune cells thought to trigger dementia actually PROTECT against it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/immune-cells-thought-to-trigger-dementia-actually-protect-against-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A specific type of immune cell, called microglia (green) can help contain amyloid plaques (magenta), the key hallmark of Alzheimer\u2019s disease, thus limiting their damage to surrounding brain cells.<\/p>\n<p>But, Dr Jaime Grutzendler, associate professor of neurology and neuroscience at Yale, said that is no longer thought to be the case, and should signal a new.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u2018It suggests we should be enhancing the function of these immune cells, not trying to suppress it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-3599620\/Immune-cells-brain-thought-trigger-dementia-actually-PROTECT-against-Alzheimer-s-experts-discover.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-3599620\/Immune-cel...cover.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A specific type of immune cell, called microglia (green) can help contain amyloid plaques (magenta), the key hallmark of Alzheimer\u2019s disease, thus limiting their damage to surrounding brain cells. But, Dr Jaime Grutzendler, associate professor of neurology and neuroscience at Yale, said that is no longer thought to be the case, and should signal a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25898","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\/25898","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67463,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25898\/revisions\/67463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}