{"id":86700,"date":"2019-01-15T17:42:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T01:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/leaky-blood-brain-barrier-identified-as-potential-early-warning-sign-for-alzheimers"},"modified":"2019-01-15T17:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T01:42:21","slug":"leaky-blood-brain-barrier-identified-as-potential-early-warning-sign-for-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/leaky-blood-brain-barrier-identified-as-potential-early-warning-sign-for-alzheimers","title":{"rendered":"Leaky blood-brain barrier identified as potential early-warning sign for Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/leaky-blood-brain-barrier-identified-as-potential-early-warning-sign-for-alzheimers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research published in the journal <em>Nature Medicine<\/em> has described the results of a five-year study into the association between a breakdown of the blood-brain barrier and the onset of cognitive impairment. The study suggests leaky capillaries in the brain can act as an early biomarker of cognitive decline, and a new drug being developed for stroke patients may be an effective treatment.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/alzheimers-blood-brain-barrier-early-sign-treatment\/58056\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/alzheimers-blood-brain-barrier-early-sign-treatment\/58056\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research published in the journal Nature Medicine has described the results of a five-year study into the association between a breakdown of the blood-brain barrier and the onset of cognitive impairment. The study suggests leaky capillaries in the brain can act as an early biomarker of cognitive decline, and a new drug being developed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86700","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\/86700","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}