{"id":385446,"date":"2017-10-09T12:31:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T16:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/10\/171009123158.htm"},"modified":"2017-10-09T12:31:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T16:31:58","slug":"making-fat-mice-lean-novel-immune-cells-control-neurons-responsible-for-fat-breakdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=385446","title":{"rendered":"Making fat mice lean: Novel immune cells control neurons responsible for fat breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biological causes underlying obesity have been under intense scrutiny with studies suggesting a link between the nervous and the immune systems. Now, in a breakthrough study to be published in Nature Medicine on Oct. 9, a research team led by Ana Domingos, from Instituto Gulbenkian de Ci\u00eancia, discovered an unforeseen population of immune cells associated with neurons that play a direct role in obesity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biological causes underlying obesity have been under intense scrutiny with studies suggesting a link between the nervous and the immune systems. Now, in a breakthrough study to be published in Nature Medicine on Oct. 9, a research team led by Ana Domingos, from Instituto Gulbenkian de Ci&ecirc;ncia, discovered an unforeseen population of immune cells associated with neurons that play a direct role in obesity.<\/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-385446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385446","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=385446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385447,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385446\/revisions\/385447"}],"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=385446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}