{"id":73586,"date":"2017-10-30T14:02:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T21:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/neutrophils-are-a-key-player-in-nerve-regeneration"},"modified":"2017-10-30T14:02:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T21:02:54","slug":"neutrophils-are-a-key-player-in-nerve-regeneration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/neutrophils-are-a-key-player-in-nerve-regeneration","title":{"rendered":"Neutrophils are a Key Player in Nerve Regeneration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neutrophils-are-a-key-player-in-nerve-regeneration2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In recent articles, we have talked about the potential of the immune system to help repair tissue, including for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/peripheral-nerve-injury\/\">peripheral nerve damage<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/atherosclerosis\/\">Atherosclerosis<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/parkinsons\/\">Parkinson\u2019s<\/a>. Immune cells not only fight infection; as this new study shows, they also help the nervous system remove debris, paving the way for nerve regeneration following injury.<\/p>\n<p>While previous studies suggested that nerve cell damage repair was conducted by other immune cell types, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/macrophages\/\">macrophages<\/a>, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have shown that neutrophils also play a role.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/neutrophils-are-a-key-player-in-nerve-regeneration\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/neutrophils-are-a-key-player-in-nerve-regeneration\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent articles, we have talked about the potential of the immune system to help repair tissue, including for peripheral nerve damage, Atherosclerosis, and Parkinson\u2019s. Immune cells not only fight infection; as this new study shows, they also help the nervous system remove debris, paving the way for nerve regeneration following injury. While previous studies [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73586","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=73586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}