{"id":105543,"date":"2020-04-16T17:24:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T00:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/proteins-may-halt-the-severe-cytokine-storms-seen-in-covid-19-patients"},"modified":"2020-04-16T17:24:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T00:24:03","slug":"proteins-may-halt-the-severe-cytokine-storms-seen-in-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/proteins-may-halt-the-severe-cytokine-storms-seen-in-covid-19-patients","title":{"rendered":"Proteins may halt the severe cytokine storms seen in COVID-19 patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/proteins-may-halt-the-severe-cytokine-storms-seen-in-covid-19-patients.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>:oooo.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>One of the defining features of Covid-19 is the excessive immune response that can occur in severe cases. This burst of immune overreaction, also called a cytokine storm, damages the lungs and can be fatal.<\/p>\n<p>A team of MIT researchers has developed specialized proteins, similar in structure to antibodies, that they believe could soak up these excess cytokines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea is that they can be injected into the body and bind to the excessive cytokines as generated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cytokine\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cytokine<\/a> storm, removing the excessive cytokines and alleviating the symptoms from the infection,\u201d says Rui Qing, an MIT research scientist who is one of the senior authors of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>:oooo. One of the defining features of Covid-19 is the excessive immune response that can occur in severe cases. This burst of immune overreaction, also called a cytokine storm, damages the lungs and can be fatal. A team of MIT researchers has developed specialized proteins, similar in structure to antibodies, that they believe could soak [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}