{"id":14609,"date":"2024-09-17T15:26:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T15:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/?p=14609"},"modified":"2024-09-22T15:29:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T15:29:04","slug":"seeking-the-roots-of-dementia-one-cell-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/seeking-the-roots-of-dementia-one-cell-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking the roots of dementia, one cell at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-mo\">\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bc<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14609\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>\u3002<\/p><p>By Wiida Fourie-Basson<\/p>\n<p>Source Nature<\/p>\n<p class=\"Theme-Layer-BodyText-Dropcap Theme-TextSize-default\">For the past 13 years, Ben Loos, a physiologist from Stellenbosch University in South Africa, has been trying to understand the role of autophagy in dementia. From the Greek word for \u2018self-eating,\u2019 autophagy is a process in which worn out, toxic or degraded cellular components are swept up and recycled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">What if we could understand whether an individual cell was in distress? Would identifying cell distress provide an early warning sign for the onset of neurodegenerative diseases?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/immersive\/d44148-024-00241-4\/index.html?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=paid_social&amp;utm_campaign=CONR_NAFRC_AWA1_GL_PCFU_CFULF_DEM_0924&amp;fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMAABHUd4Qfgm3Z_TKagIbvvUzgmIb94PiYnmhy5_Zm1ej9bMnZc7iPTDpJsBoQ_aem_ZBUmE-2oUJWOBUiG0mVJ2g&amp;sfnsn=wa\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/immersive\/d44148-024-00241-4\/index.html?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=paid_social&amp;utm_campaign=CONR_NAFRC_AWA1_GL_PCFU_CFULF_DEM_0924&amp;fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMAABHUd4Qfgm3Z_TKagIbvvUzgmIb94PiYnmhy5_Zm1ej9bMnZc7iPTDpJsBoQ_aem_ZBUmE-2oUJWOBUiG0mVJ2g&amp;sfnsn=wa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bcEnglish\u3002By Wiida Fourie-Basson Source Nature For the past 13 years, Ben Loos, a physiologist from Stellenbosch University in South Africa, has been trying to understand the role of autophagy in dementia. From the Greek word for \u2018self-eating,\u2019 autophagy is a process in which worn out, toxic or degraded cellular components are swept up and recycled. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brain-cancer-metabolic-syndrome-og","category-brain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14611,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14609\/revisions\/14611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}