{"id":35561,"date":"2017-03-24T21:02:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T04:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/we-were-wrong"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:07:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:07:50","slug":"we-were-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/we-were-wrong","title":{"rendered":"We Were Wrong \u2014 the Testes Are Connected to the Immune System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-were-wrong-the-testes-are-connected-to-the-immune-system.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some parts of the body \u2013 including the tissues of the brain and testes \u2013 have long been considered to be completely hidden from our immune system.<\/p>\n<p>Last year scientists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-discover-never-before-seen-vessels-in-the-brain\">made the amazing discovery<\/a> that a set of previously unseen channels connected the brain to our immune system; now, it appears we might also need to rethink the immune system\u2019s relationship with the testes, potentially explaining why some men are infertile and how some cancer vaccines fail to provide immunity.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from University of Virginia School of Medicine discovered a \u2018very small door\u2019 which allows the testes to expose some of its antigens to the immune system without letting it inside.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/it-turns-out-the-immune-system-is-connected-to-the-testes-after-all\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/it-turns-out-the-immune-system-i...-after-all<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some parts of the body \u2013 including the tissues of the brain and testes \u2013 have long been considered to be completely hidden from our immune system. Last year scientists made the amazing discovery that a set of previously unseen channels connected the brain to our immune system; now, it appears we might also need [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35561","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\/35561","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58320,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35561\/revisions\/58320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}