Scientists discover receptor that blocks Covid-19 infection
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Re: Scientists discover receptor that blocks Covid-19 infection
#2Archive Link [1]
[1] - https://archive.ph/FiE2r
Re: Scientists discover receptor that blocks Covid-19 infection
#3I think the title/article uses the word infection when they should be using disease.
Re: Scientists discover receptor that blocks Covid-19 infection
#4I think the title/article uses the word infection when they should be using disease.
or they mean "infection of the lungs". Covid certainly infects and causes disease in other areas of the body.
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#5I think the title/article uses the word infection when they should be using disease.
The article is correct. Infection is the process of a virus entering a cell. Disease is the virus's cumulative effect on the body due to the infection.
Since the protein (LRRC15) mentioned in the article binds to the virus, making it impossible for the virus to infect the cells, it does indeed block infection.
Re: Scientists discover receptor that blocks Covid-19 infection
#6I think the title/article uses the word infection when they should be using disease.
COVID = Coronavirus disease
Re: Scientists discover receptor that blocks Covid-19 infection
#7Does the existence of this protein explain asymptomatic infections? I wonder what percentage of the population have it.
Re: Scientists discover receptor that blocks Covid-19 infection
#8That's good. But the lower lungs already get seepage of body serum/humoral igM and igG. If you really want to protect against infections then you have to induce mucosal immunity (and get tissue resident B and T cells) in the surface layer of the upper respiratory. Unfortunately intramuscular vaccinations do not do that, they only give serum/humoral immunity. So they're only the first step to protect against serious disease.
India has just released it's intranasal sars-cov-2 vaccine for use as of a month ago (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64421961). I'm waiting anxiously on those large scale public results. Especially as a booster after intramuscular.
Re: Scientists discover receptor that blocks Covid-19 infection
#9I think the title/article uses the word infection when they should be using disease.
It's an infection of sars-cov-2 which if left unchecked can cause COVID-19 disease. But unfortunately that proper notation train left the station a few years ago.
Re: Scientists discover receptor that blocks Covid-19 infection
#10Does the existence of this protein explain asymptomatic infections? I wonder what percentage of the population have it.
Everyone has it (produced) when needed, as far as I can derive from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucine_rich_repeat_containing...
But maybe different people generate different amounts at different speeds?