{"id":75806,"date":"2018-02-07T10:42:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T18:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/failure-of-the-blood-brain-barrier-proceeds-dementia"},"modified":"2018-02-07T10:42:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T18:42:34","slug":"failure-of-the-blood-brain-barrier-proceeds-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/failure-of-the-blood-brain-barrier-proceeds-dementia","title":{"rendered":"Failure of the Blood-Brain Barrier Proceeds Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/failure-of-the-blood-brain-barrier-proceeds-dementia2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research from the University of Southern California has shed light on how the decline of the brain\u2019s vascular system precedes the build-up of the plaques and tau tangles associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A leaky blood-brain barrier sets the scene for dementia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, many researchers have focused their efforts on the amyloid and tau proteins that accumulate in the brain and are typical of Alzheimer\u2019s disease progression. However, the researchers in this new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nm.4482\">study<\/a> suggest that the problem begins before this due to a leaking blood-brain barrier [1].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/failure-of-the-blood-brain-barrier-proceeds-dementia\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/failure-of-the-blood-brain-barri...-dementia\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from the University of Southern California has shed light on how the decline of the brain\u2019s vascular system precedes the build-up of the plaques and tau tangles associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease. A leaky blood-brain barrier sets the scene for dementia Traditionally, many researchers have focused their efforts on the amyloid and tau proteins [\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-75806","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\/75806","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=75806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}