{"id":950,"date":"2024-05-31T23:27:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T23:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/alzheimers-biomarker-strem2-plays-a-causal-potentially-modifiable-role-in-disease\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T23:27:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T23:27:02","slug":"alzheimers-biomarker-strem2-plays-a-causal-potentially-modifiable-role-in-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/alzheimers-biomarker-strem2-plays-a-causal-potentially-modifiable-role-in-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer\u2019s biomarker sTREM2 plays a causal, potentially modifiable, role in disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The protein sTREM2 plays a crucial role in Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, but the role is complex and poorly understood. In the early stages of the disease, sTREM2 levels in the cerebrospinal fluid fall relative to healthy people&#8217;s, but then the levels rise far above normal as the disease progresses. Why the levels fluctuate and whether the fluctuations reflect or cause disease progression is unknown. In a study published in the journal Molecular Neurodegeneration, Carlos Cruchaga, the Barbara Burton &#038; Reuben Morriss III Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, and <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/alzheimers-biomarker-strem2-plays-a-causal-potentially-modifiable-role-in-disease\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The protein sTREM2 plays a crucial role in Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, but the role is complex and poorly understood. In the early stages of the disease, sTREM2 levels in the cerebrospinal fluid fall relative to healthy people&#8217;s, but then the levels rise far above normal as the disease progresses. Why the levels fluctuate and whether the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}