The COVID-19 pandemic: How to maintain a healthy immune system during the lockdown - A multidisciplinary approach with special focus on athletesdoi:10.5114/BIOLSPORT.2020.95125Narimen YousfiNicola Luigi BragazziWalid BrikiPiotr ZmijewskiKarim Chamari...
Can your pet become infected with the COVID 19 virus? The most recent consensus is this: pets do not appear to be easily infected with this virus. Is it possible for your pet to spread the virus to others? Here is the official statement from the AVMA: Infectious disease experts including...
Scientists in Australia have mapped immune responses from one of the country’s first novel coronavirus patients to show how the human body fights and recovers from COVID-19. Experts at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity tested blood samples at four different points in time in...
Yes, I know “Covid-19” is the name of the disease, not the virus, but it’s easier to say than “SARS-CoV-2”. Over the past 10 days, I’ve been addicted to theMedCramchannel on YouTube, on which Dr. Roger Seheult (internist and pulmonologist, name is pronounced “SHOE-uhlt...
About 80% of cases with mild symptoms can recover without special treatment, but not all covid-19 patients show signs and symptoms, this is thought to be influenced by the strength of the individual's immune system. Patients who have comorbidities such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension,...
Australian scientists researching how our immune system responds to COVID-19 have revealed that those infected by early variants in 2020 produced sustained antibodies, however, these antibodies are not as effective against contemporary variants of the vi
How do we study the immune response? The serum of COVID-19 infected individuals was of interest as it is the part of our blood that contains crucial information about our immune system. Analysis of the serum made it possible to create a detailed timeline of the level of ‘neutralizing anti...
The results of the research also helped to demonstrate how COVID-19 diverts mitochondrial genes from their normal function in order to mute the body's natural inflammatory response. "We already knew that our immune response was not mounting a successful defense to COVID-19, but we didn't ...
How long do COVID-19 antibodies stay in your system? Antibody tests can detect COVID-19 antibodies within a few days to weeks after you've been infected or vaccinated against COVID-19. There are two kinds of antibodies for SARS-CoV-2: ...
COVID-19 reduces the numbers and functional competence of certain types of immune cells in the blood, say LMU researchers. This could affect responses to secondary infections.