{"id":64019,"date":"2020-09-10T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/its-not-just-the-lungs-how-covid-19-attacks-the-brain\/"},"modified":"2020-09-10T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T15:43:00","slug":"its-not-just-the-lungs-how-covid-19-attacks-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/its-not-just-the-lungs-how-covid-19-attacks-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"#It\u2019s not just the lungs: How COVID-19 attacks the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#It\u2019s not just the lungs: How COVID-19 attacks the brain<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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September 10, 2020 |<\/span> 11:43am |<\/span> Updated September 10, 2020 | 11:44am<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n Brain scans from coronavirus patients from a study published in July in Oxford University’s journal Brain.<\/span>
\n Ross W. Paterson et al.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\n It\u2019s \u201cInvasion of the Body Snatchers\u201d on a cellular level.<\/p>\n

A new Yale University study on how the coronavirus affects the nervous system has revealed that the viral invader attacks the mind by taking over its victim\u2019s brain cells in order to make copies of itself, while simultaneously sapp<\/a>ing all the available oxygen, thus choking-out nearby cells.<\/p>\n

Their findings, which are awaiting peer review on BioRXiv, add evidence to claims that the brain belongs on the ever growing list of vulnerabilities to COVID-19, including the lungs, kidneys, liver, gut and blood vessels.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the brain does become infected, it could have a lethal consequence,\u201d Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist at Yale University and lead researcher, told the New York Times.<\/p>\n

The coronavirus is a whole body disease. Broadly, doctors have long observed its respiratory symptoms, such as coughing, troubled breathing and pneumonia. Soon, they added more puzzling issues: gastrointestinal discomfort and diarrhea; loss of taste and smell; chest pain and arrhythmia; brain fog and confusion.<\/p>\n

Other than patient anecdotes, \u201cwe hadn\u2019t really seen much evidence that the virus can infect the brain, even though we knew it was a potential possibility,\u201d Dr. Michael Zandi, consultant neurologist at University College London\u2019s National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, told the Times. In July, Dr. Zandi\u2019s team published a report in Oxford University\u2019s journal Brain documenting what they\u2019d seen and heard from patients suffering neurologic effects following a COVID-19 diagnosis.<\/p>\n

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Brain scans from coronavirus patients from a study published in July in Oxford University\u2019s journal Brain.<\/span>Ross W. Paterson et al.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThis [new] data just provides a little bit more evidence that it certainly can,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Unlike other diseases, such as Zika, which causes our immune system to turn on our own brain tissue, the coronavirus works by entering a cell through a protein on their surface, called ACE2, then usurps the cellular components to speed up viral reproduction. All the while, it deprives other cells of oxygen along the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of a silent infection,\u201d said Dr. Iwasaki, whose team observed brain tissue in deceased COVID-19 patients, in mice and in lab-grown cells. \u201cThis virus has a lot of evasion mechanisms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Alysson Muotri, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego, who studied Zika in the past, noted how the presence of the coronavirus severely hampered synapses between neurons. \u201cDays after infection, and we already see a dramatic reduction in the amount of synapses,\u201d Dr. Muotri said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know yet if that is reversible or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

The researchers now believe a coronavirus brain infection may be more lethal than when centralized in the lungs, based on mouse experiments that compared outcomes when focused within one organ or another. Brain-infected specimens lost weight and died within six days. Neither of these side effects were observed the in the lung group.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it\u2019s not yet possible to predict the cellular intruder\u2019s pathway. Furthermore, the 40% to 60% of patients who claim to suffer brain and psychiatric symptoms, according to a recent study in The Lancet, could be related to widespread inflammation caused by the body\u2019s immune response to COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no need for the brain cells themselves to be infected for [some brain-related symptoms] to occur,\u201d Dr. Zandi said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDifferent groups of patients may be affected in different ways,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s quite possible that you\u2019ll see a combination of both.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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