{"id":592170,"date":"2019-03-14T15:16:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T19:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/03\/190314151659.htm"},"modified":"2019-03-14T15:16:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T19:16:59","slug":"guardians-of-the-synapse-scientists-identify-a-new-role-for-nerve-supporting-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=592170","title":{"rendered":"Guardians of the synapse: Scientists identify a new role for nerve-supporting cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found, for the first time, that a blood-clotting protein can, unexpectedly, degrade nerves&#8211;and how nerve-supporting glial cells, including Schwann cells, provide protection. The findings show that Schwann cells protect nerves by blocking this blood-clotting protein as well as other potentially destructive enzymes released by muscle cells. The work could have implications for diseases as diverse as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer&#8217;s disease or schizophrenia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found, for the first time, that a blood-clotting protein can, unexpectedly, degrade nerves&#8211;and how nerve-supporting glial cells, including Schwann cells, provide protection. The findings show that Schwann cells protect nerves by block&#8230;<\/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-592170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592170","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=592170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592171,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592170\/revisions\/592171"}],"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=592170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}