{"id":72945,"date":"2017-09-30T16:08:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T23:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/1-comment-on-scientists-discover-a-protein-that-protects-the-eyes-from-glaucoma"},"modified":"2017-10-07T18:22:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T01:22:51","slug":"1-comment-on-scientists-discover-a-protein-that-protects-the-eyes-from-glaucoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/1-comment-on-scientists-discover-a-protein-that-protects-the-eyes-from-glaucoma","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover a protein that protects the eyes from glaucoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f-tva2zj0H0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mq.edu.au\/\">Macquarie University<\/a> have discovered that a naturally occurring protein in the body protects the eye from the common eye disease <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/eye-health\/glaucoma-eyes\">glaucoma<\/a>, which is particularly sensitive to oxidation through environmental factors that may include cigarette smoke. The findings were published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-017-08688-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Scientific Reports<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers have demonstrated that the protein \u201cneuroserpin\u201d is critical to a healthy retina, regulating other enzymes and maintaining a natural protective environment in the eye.<\/p>\n<p>Neuroserpin belongs to a family of proteins \u201cserpins\u201d that are particularly sensitive to oxidation through environmental factors.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/sciencr.com\/scientists-discover-a-protein-that-protects-the-eyes-from-glaucoma\/\">https:\/\/sciencr.com\/scientists-discover-a-protein-that-prote...-glaucoma\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Macquarie University have discovered that a naturally occurring protein in the body protects the eye from the common eye disease glaucoma, which is particularly sensitive to oxidation through environmental factors that may include cigarette smoke. The findings were published in Scientific Reports. The researchers have demonstrated that the protein \u201cneuroserpin\u201d is critical to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72945","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73117,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72945\/revisions\/73117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}