{"id":72756,"date":"2017-09-22T08:42:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T15:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/modifying-neutrophil-behavior-for-stroke-recovery"},"modified":"2017-09-22T08:42:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T15:42:34","slug":"modifying-neutrophil-behavior-for-stroke-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/modifying-neutrophil-behavior-for-stroke-recovery","title":{"rendered":"Modifying Neutrophil Behavior for Stroke Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/modifying-neutrophil-behavior-for-stroke-recovery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The immune system is like an army keeping us safe from invasion, injury and infection and helps us to regenerate and repair tissues and organs. However, the immune system is sometimes a double-edged sword that does more harm than good.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of focus has been on the role of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/macrophages\/\">macrophages<\/a> and their ability to facilitate tissue healing and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/atherosclerosis\/\">regeneration<\/a>. Today, we will be looking at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-017-00770-7\">study<\/a> that examines the role of neutrophils and how they can actually harm the brain further following a stroke[1].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/modifying-neutrophils\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/modifying-neutrophils\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The immune system is like an army keeping us safe from invasion, injury and infection and helps us to regenerate and repair tissues and organs. However, the immune system is sometimes a double-edged sword that does more harm than good. A lot of focus has been on the role of macrophages and their ability to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72756","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\/72756","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}