{"id":273198,"date":"2017-02-10T09:47:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T13:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/02\/170210084739.htm"},"modified":"2017-02-10T09:47:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T13:47:39","slug":"mitochondrial-lipids-as-potential-targets-in-early-onset-parkinsons-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=273198","title":{"rendered":"Mitochondrial lipids as potential targets in early onset Parkinson&#8217;s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers has identified an underlying mechanism in early onset Parkinson\u2019s. Using flies, mice and patient cells, the team focused on cardiolipin, a fat unique to cells\u2019 mitochondria, organelles that produce energy. They demonstrated that reducing the effects of the protein FASN influences the mitochondria, leading to increased cardiolipin levels and reduced Parkinson\u2019s symptoms. These results could pave the way to therapies for Parkinson\u2019s disease that target lipids. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers has identified an underlying mechanism in early onset Parkinson&rsquo;s. Using flies, mice and patient cells, the team focused on cardiolipin, a fat unique to cells&rsquo; mitochondria, organelles that produce energy. They demonstrated that reducing the effects of the protein FASN influences the mitochondria, leading to increased cardiolipin levels and reduced Parkinson&rsquo;s symptoms. These results could pave the way to therapies for Parkinson&rsquo;s disease that target lipids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273199,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273198\/revisions\/273199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}