{"id":95570,"date":"2019-08-30T08:42:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T15:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/removing-dysfunctional-microglia-prevents-amyloid-%ce%b2-plaques"},"modified":"2019-08-30T19:17:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T02:17:34","slug":"removing-dysfunctional-microglia-prevents-amyloid-%ce%b2-plaques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/removing-dysfunctional-microglia-prevents-amyloid-%ce%b2-plaques","title":{"rendered":"Removing Dysfunctional Microglia Prevents Amyloid-\u03b2 Plaques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/removing-dysfunctional-microglia-prevents-amyloid-ceb2-plaques.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The macrophages resident in the brain and spinal cord appear to be a key element in the progression of Alzheimer\u2019s disease, according to the results of a new mouse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-019-11674-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Microglial mayhem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As we age, our immune cells become increasingly dysfunctional; once-helpful cells can behave in harmful ways, promoting persistent inflammation, impairing tissue regeneration, and possibly also facilitating the progression of age-related diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The macrophages resident in the brain and spinal cord appear to be a key element in the progression of Alzheimer\u2019s disease, according to the results of a new mouse study. Microglial mayhem As we age, our immune cells become increasingly dysfunctional; once-helpful cells can behave in harmful ways, promoting persistent inflammation, impairing tissue regeneration, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95570","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=95570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95611,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95570\/revisions\/95611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}