{"id":99661,"date":"2019-12-12T07:23:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T15:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/dementia-study-reveals-how-proteins-interact-to-stop-brain-signals"},"modified":"2019-12-12T07:23:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T15:23:44","slug":"dementia-study-reveals-how-proteins-interact-to-stop-brain-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/dementia-study-reveals-how-proteins-interact-to-stop-brain-signals","title":{"rendered":"Dementia study reveals how proteins interact to stop brain signals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dementia-study-reveals-how-proteins-interact-to-stop-brain-signals3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fresh insights into damaging proteins that build up in the brains of people with Alzheimer\u2019s disease could aid the quest for treatments.<\/p>\n<p>A study in mice reveals how the two proteins work together to disrupt communication between brain cells.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists observed how proteins\u2014called amyloid beta and tau\u2014team up to hamper key genes responsible for brain messaging. By changing how genes are expressed in the brain, the proteins can affect its normal function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh insights into damaging proteins that build up in the brains of people with Alzheimer\u2019s disease could aid the quest for treatments. A study in mice reveals how the two proteins work together to disrupt communication between brain cells. Scientists observed how proteins\u2014called amyloid beta and tau\u2014team up to hamper key genes responsible for brain [\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-99661","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\/99661","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=99661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}