{"id":8437,"date":"2018-08-31T17:23:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T17:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/08\/180831130120.htm"},"modified":"2018-08-31T17:23:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T17:23:20","slug":"vicious-circle-leads-to-loss-of-brain-cells-in-old-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/vicious-circle-leads-to-loss-of-brain-cells-in-old-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicious circle leads to loss of brain cells in old age"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/vicious-circle-leads-to-loss-of-brain-cells-in-old-age\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>The CB1 receptor is responsible for the intoxicating effect of cannabis. However, it appears to act also as a kind of &#8216;sensor&#8217; with which neurons measure and control the activity of certain immune cells in the brain. A recent study at least points in this direction. If the sensor fails, chronic inflammation may result &#8212; probably the beginning of a dangerous vicious circle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CB1 receptor is responsible for the intoxicating effect of cannabis. However, it appears to act also as a kind of &#8216;sensor&#8217; with which neurons measure and control the activity of certain immune cells in the brain. A recent study at least points in this direction. If the sensor fails, chronic inflammation may result &#8212; probably the beginning of a dangerous vicious circle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}