{"id":94524,"date":"2019-08-07T09:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T16:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/heart-inflammation-causes-a-shift-in-cell-fate-distribution"},"modified":"2019-08-07T09:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T16:42:26","slug":"heart-inflammation-causes-a-shift-in-cell-fate-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/heart-inflammation-causes-a-shift-in-cell-fate-distribution","title":{"rendered":"Heart Inflammation Causes a Shift in Cell Fate Distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heart-inflammation-causes-a-shift-in-cell-fate-distribution2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study on animals with autoimmune myocarditis was recently released in the journal <em>Cell Reports<\/em> [1], showing the impact of heart inflammation on the types of immune cell that are formed in the heart. This could have a significant impact on our understanding of cardiac aging.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is myocarditis and how is it relevant to aging?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Myocarditis is a disease involving inflammation of the heart. It mainly influences people between the ages of 20 and 51 [2] [3]; however, the elderly are still affected to some degree. The disease has been known to cause serious complications, such as heart attack and heart failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study on animals with autoimmune myocarditis was recently released in the journal Cell Reports [1], showing the impact of heart inflammation on the types of immune cell that are formed in the heart. This could have a significant impact on our understanding of cardiac aging. What is myocarditis and how is it relevant to [\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-94524","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\/94524","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=94524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}