{"id":110443,"date":"2020-07-25T08:03:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T15:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/potential-new-treatment-approach-to-fatal-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-07-25T08:03:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T15:03:04","slug":"potential-new-treatment-approach-to-fatal-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/potential-new-treatment-approach-to-fatal-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Potential new treatment approach to fatal COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/potential-new-treatment-approach-to-fatal-covid-19.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cuanschutz.edu\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pathwaysbio.com\" rel=\"noopener\">Pathways Bioscience<\/a> in the United States have found that activating a transcription factor involved in oxidative stress regulation, antiviral activity, and inflammation may serve as a new treatment approach to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).<\/p>\n<p>The scientists propose that the antiviral and anti-inflammatory effects of activating nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) may reduce symptoms and stop the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/amp\/health\/What-is-Cytokine-Storm.aspx\" class=\"\">cytokine storm<\/a> syndrome\u201d that can be fatal in cases of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>A pre-print version of the study can be accessed on the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.05.16.099788v1\" rel=\"noopener\">bioRxiv<\/a>*<\/em> server, while the manuscript undergoes peer review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Pathways Bioscience in the United States have found that activating a transcription factor involved in oxidative stress regulation, antiviral activity, and inflammation may serve as a new treatment approach to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The scientists propose that the antiviral and anti-inflammatory effects of activating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110443","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}