{"id":85133,"date":"2018-11-26T09:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T17:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/thymus-shrinkage-contributes-to-atherosclerosis"},"modified":"2018-11-26T09:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T17:22:21","slug":"thymus-shrinkage-contributes-to-atherosclerosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/thymus-shrinkage-contributes-to-atherosclerosis","title":{"rendered":"Thymus Shrinkage Contributes to Atherosclerosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/thymus-shrinkage-contributes-to-atherosclerosis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, we want to highlight a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medsci.org\/v15p1555.htm\">study<\/a> that shows the link between atherosclerosis and the age-related shrinking of the thymus, which is arguably the most important organ of the immune system [1].<\/p>\n<p><strong>The adaptive and innate immune systems and atherosclerosis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The thymus is essentially like an army base where new T cells develop and are trained to become the soldiers of the adaptive immune system. However, as we age, the thymus shrinks, its ability to train new T cells declines, and the immune cell-producing tissue turns to fat and slowly wastes away; this process is known as thymic involution.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/atherosclerosis-and-the-thymus\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/atherosclerosis-and-the-thymus\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we want to highlight a study that shows the link between atherosclerosis and the age-related shrinking of the thymus, which is arguably the most important organ of the immune system [1]. The adaptive and innate immune systems and atherosclerosis The thymus is essentially like an army base where new T cells develop and are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85133","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=85133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}