{"id":194192,"date":"2024-08-07T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T15:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/preclinical-data-suggest-antioxidant-strategy-to-address-mitochondrial-dysfunction-caused-by-sars-cov-2-virus"},"modified":"2024-08-07T10:30:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T15:30:33","slug":"preclinical-data-suggest-antioxidant-strategy-to-address-mitochondrial-dysfunction-caused-by-sars-cov-2-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/preclinical-data-suggest-antioxidant-strategy-to-address-mitochondrial-dysfunction-caused-by-sars-cov-2-virus","title":{"rendered":"Preclinical Data suggest Antioxidant Strategy to address Mitochondrial Dysfunction caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/preclinical-data-suggest-antioxidant-strategy-to-address-mitochondrial-dysfunction-caused-by-sars-cov-2-virus2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Building upon groundbreaking research demonstrating how the SARS-CoV-2 virus disrupts mitochondrial function in multiple organs, researchers from Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) demonstrated that mitochondrially-targeted antioxidants could reduce the effects of the virus while avoiding viral gene mutation resistance, a strategy that may be useful for treating other viruses.<\/p>\n<p>The preclinical findings were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a multi-institutional consortium of researchers found that the genes of the mitochondria, the energy producers of our cells, can be negatively impacted by the virus, leading to dysfunction in multiple organs beyond the lungs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building upon groundbreaking research demonstrating how the SARS-CoV-2 virus disrupts mitochondrial function in multiple organs, researchers from Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) demonstrated that mitochondrially-targeted antioxidants could reduce the effects of the virus while avoiding viral gene mutation resistance, a strategy that may be useful for treating other viruses. The preclinical findings were published in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194192","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=194192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}