{"id":127281,"date":"2021-09-05T17:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T00:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/like-venom-coursing-through-the-body-researchers-identify-mechanism-driving-covid-19-mortality"},"modified":"2021-09-05T17:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T00:22:18","slug":"like-venom-coursing-through-the-body-researchers-identify-mechanism-driving-covid-19-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/like-venom-coursing-through-the-body-researchers-identify-mechanism-driving-covid-19-mortality","title":{"rendered":"Like Venom Coursing Through the Body: Researchers Identify Mechanism Driving COVID-19 Mortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/like-venom-coursing-through-the-body-researchers-identify-mechanism-driving-covid-19-mortality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An enzyme with an elusive role in severe inflammation may be a key mechanism driving COVID-19 severity and could provide a new therapeutic target to reduce COVID-19 mortality, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Arizona, in collaboration with Stony Brook University and Wake Forest School of Medicine, analyzed blood samples from two COVID-19 patient cohorts and found that circulation of the enzyme \u2014 secreted phospholipase A2 group IIA, or sPLA2-IIA, \u2014 may be the most important factor in predicting which patients with severe COVID-19 eventually succumb to the virus.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers have identified what may be the key molecular mechanism responsible for COVID-19 mortality \u2013 an enzyme related to neurotoxins found in rattlesnake venom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An enzyme with an elusive role in severe inflammation may be a key mechanism driving COVID-19 severity and could provide a new therapeutic target to reduce COVID-19 mortality, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Researchers from the University of Arizona, in collaboration with Stony Brook University and Wake Forest School [\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-127281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127281","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=127281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}