{"id":9705,"date":"2018-03-28T11:19:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T15:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=9705"},"modified":"2018-03-29T11:23:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T15:23:02","slug":"is-the-interstitium-really-a-new-organ-the-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2018\/is-the-interstitium-really-a-new-organ-the-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Interstitium Really a New Organ? &#8211; <em>The Scientist<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/?articles.view\/articleNo\/52168\/title\/Is-the-Interstitium-Really-a-New-Organ-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a> -\u00a0Cites comments by Radu Stan, associate professor of biochemistry and cell biology, and of pathology and laboratory medicine, about the recent news that a team of researchers used a new in vivo microscopy technique to present evidence that the human interstitium\u2014the space between cells\u2014is more like a matrix of collagen bundles interspersed with fluid than the densely-packed stacks of connective tissue it appears to be in fixed slides. Stan, who wasn't involved in the study, notes that the concept of a fluid-filled matrix is not \"earth-shattering,\" and that sectioning and imaging unfixed tissue as the authors did, which could tear and create artifacts, presents limitations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/?articles.view\/articleNo\/52168\/title\/Is-the-Interstitium-Really-a-New-Organ-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a> &#8211;\u00a0Cites comments by Radu Stan, associate professor of biochemistry and cell biology, and of pathology and laboratory medicine, about the recent news that a team of researchers used a new in vivo microscopy technique to present evidence that the human interstitium\u2014the space between cells\u2014is more like a matrix of collagen bundles interspersed with fluid than the densely-packed stacks of connective tissue it appears to be in fixed slides. Stan, who wasn&#8217;t involved in the study, notes that the concept of a fluid-filled matrix is not &#8220;earth-shattering,&#8221; and that sectioning and imaging unfixed tissue as the authors did, which could tear and create artifacts, presents limitations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-2wx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9706,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705\/revisions\/9706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}