{"id":116510,"date":"2020-12-01T13:23:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T21:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/covid-19-research-study-shows-that-high-density-lipoproteins-hdl-or-good-cholesterol-facilitates-sars-cov-2-cell-entry"},"modified":"2020-12-01T13:23:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T21:23:17","slug":"covid-19-research-study-shows-that-high-density-lipoproteins-hdl-or-good-cholesterol-facilitates-sars-cov-2-cell-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/covid-19-research-study-shows-that-high-density-lipoproteins-hdl-or-good-cholesterol-facilitates-sars-cov-2-cell-entry","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Research: Study Shows That High-Density Lipoproteins (HDL) Or \u2018Good\u2019 Cholesterol Facilitates SARS-CoV-2 Cell Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/covid-19-research-study-shows-that-high-density-lipoproteins-hdl-or-good-cholesterol-facilitates-sars-cov-2-cell-entry.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 Research: Chinese researchers from the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS)-China led by Professor Dr Wei Congwen, have found the role of an HDL (high-density lipoprotein) receptor in the facilitation of entry of the SARS CoV-2 into human host cells.<\/p>\n<p>The SARS-CoV-2 infects host cells through binding of the viral spike protein (SARS-2-S) to the cell-surface receptor angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 Research: Chinese researchers from the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS)-China led by Professor Dr Wei Congwen, have found the role of an HDL (high-density lipoprotein) receptor in the facilitation of entry of the SARS CoV-2 into human host cells. The SARS-CoV-2 infects host cells through binding of the viral [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116510","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\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}