{"id":114625,"date":"2020-10-17T23:22:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T06:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/johns-hopkins-researchers-identify-immune-system-pathway-that-may-stop-covid-19-infection"},"modified":"2020-10-17T23:22:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T06:22:23","slug":"johns-hopkins-researchers-identify-immune-system-pathway-that-may-stop-covid-19-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/johns-hopkins-researchers-identify-immune-system-pathway-that-may-stop-covid-19-infection","title":{"rendered":"Johns Hopkins Researchers Identify Immune System Pathway That May Stop COVID-19 Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/johns-hopkins-researchers-identify-immune-system-pathway-that-may-stop-covid-19-infection2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Blocking Immune System Pathway May Stop COVID-19 Infection, Prevent Severe Organ Damage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the world waits eagerly for a safe and effective vaccine to prevent infections from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers also are focusing on better understanding how SARS-CoV-2 attacks the body in the search for other means of stopping its devastating impact. The key to one possibility \u2014 blocking a protein that enables the virus to turn the immune system against healthy cells \u2014 has been identified in a recent study by a team of Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Based on their findings, the researchers believe that inhibiting the protein, known as factor D, also will curtail the potentially deadly inflammatory reactions that many patients have to the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blocking Immune System Pathway May Stop COVID-19 Infection, Prevent Severe Organ Damage While the world waits eagerly for a safe and effective vaccine to prevent infections from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers also are focusing on better understanding how SARS-CoV-2 attacks the body in the search [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114625","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}