{"id":187549,"date":"2024-04-17T10:32:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T15:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/covid-19-research-study-reveals-new-details-about-potentially-deadly-inflammation"},"modified":"2024-04-17T10:32:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T15:32:07","slug":"covid-19-research-study-reveals-new-details-about-potentially-deadly-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/covid-19-research-study-reveals-new-details-about-potentially-deadly-inflammation","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Research: Study reveals New Details about Potentially Deadly Inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/covid-19-research-study-reveals-new-details-about-potentially-deadly-inflammation3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent USC study provides new information about why SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, may elicit mild symptoms at first but then, for a subset of patients, turn potentially fatal a week or so after infection. The researchers showed that distinct stages of illness correspond with the coronavirus acting differently in two different populations of cells.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in Nature Cell Biology, may provide a roadmap for addressing cytokine storms and other excessive immune reactions that drive serious COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The team found that when SARS-CoV-2 infects its first-phase targets, cells in the lining of the lung, two viral proteins circulate within those cells\u2014one that works to activate the immune system and a second that, paradoxically, blocks that signal, resulting in little or no inflammation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent USC study provides new information about why SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, may elicit mild symptoms at first but then, for a subset of patients, turn potentially fatal a week or so after infection. The researchers showed that distinct stages of illness correspond with the coronavirus acting differently in two different [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187549","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}