{"id":5509,"date":"2014-12-03T13:24:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T18:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=5509"},"modified":"2014-12-03T13:24:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T18:24:45","slug":"busm-research-featured-at-society-for-neuroscience-annual-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2014\/12\/03\/busm-research-featured-at-society-for-neuroscience-annual-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSM Research Featured at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5511\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5511\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2014\/12\/2014_SFN_Press2web-e1417630940912.jpg\" alt=\"Tsuneya Ikezu\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5511\" height=\"185\" width=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tsuneya Ikezu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The latest research from the Laboratory of Molecular NeuroTherapeutics of Tsuneya Ikezu, MD, PhD, from the Departments of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and Neurology, was featured as a \u201cHot Topic\u201d\u00a0 for press conference at the recent Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>Ikezu\u2019s latest work entitled \u201cMicroglia and exosome-mediated spread of pathogenic tau in Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) attempts to further the understanding of Alzheimer\u2019s disease and how brain damage caused by AD spreads from one portion of the brain to the next. According to Ikezu it is now thought that by understanding and eventually preventing this progression one may limit the effects and impact of this devastating disease. Ikezu\u2019s team looked at the role of a specific brain cell known as microglia as a possible \u201cshuttle\u201d for one of the presumed culprit molecules in AD\u2019s tau protein.<\/p>\n<p>Comprising more than 40,000 members, the Society for Neuroscience is the world\u2019s largest organization of scientists and physicians dedicated to nervous system research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest research from the Laboratory of Molecular NeuroTherapeutics of Tsuneya Ikezu, MD, PhD, from the Departments of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and Neurology, was featured as a \u201cHot Topic\u201d\u00a0 for press conference at the recent Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, DC. Ikezu\u2019s latest work entitled \u201cMicroglia and exosome-mediated spread of pathogenic tau in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}