{"id":28307,"date":"2025-04-27T14:21:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T12:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/?p=28307"},"modified":"2025-06-22T12:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T10:25:05","slug":"new-horizons-in-treating-neurodegenerative-diseases-a-breakthrough-in-microglia-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/new-horizons-in-treating-neurodegenerative-diseases-a-breakthrough-in-microglia-research\/","title":{"rendered":"New Horizons in Treating Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Breakthrough in Microglia Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/03\/06\/health\/key-brain-discovery-could-revolutionize-alzheimers-treatment\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scientists from Northwestern University announced a major breakthrough in understanding how the brain clears amyloid plaques in Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.<\/a><br \/>\nThe study revealed that activating microglia \u2014 the brain\u2019s immune cells \u2014 can significantly enhance the removal of harmful protein deposits, opening new therapeutic possibilities not only for Alzheimer&#8217;s disease but also for other neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson\u2019s disease and ALS. (Source)<\/p>\n<p>The analysis of 25 post-mortem brain samples, including 13 patients who had received anti-amyloid beta vaccines, showed that 7 of them demonstrated effective plaque clearance.<br \/>\nThis finding highlights the potential of microglia activation in combating pathological brain changes.<\/p>\n<p>These results could lay the foundation for the development of new treatments aimed at stimulating microglial activity, offering new hope for patients with neurodegenerative diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Northwestern University announced a major breakthrough in understanding how the brain clears amyloid plaques in Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. The study revealed that activating microglia \u2014 the brain\u2019s immune cells \u2014 can significantly enhance the removal of harmful protein deposits, opening new therapeutic possibilities not only for Alzheimer&#8217;s disease but also for other neurodegenerative disorders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[655],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28309,"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28307\/revisions\/28309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuro.med.sumdu.edu.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}