Diabetes is a common condition that affects millions of people around the world, and with the outbreak of the Corona virus that is sweeping the world, diabetes patients have been placed in a high-risk category for infection, complications and death due to COVID-19, And they were warned to be very careful to prevent infection, and recent findings suggest that it may actually be a two-way street when it comes to Diabetes And viral infections, as a study showed that the virus can also cause diabetes.
The report explained to the newspaper TIME NOW NEWS That, according to a study by the Spanish National Center for Cancer Research, it was found recently that infection with some enteroviruses, a genus of viruses, that have the ability to cause infections of different severity, can also lead to diabetes, and the team of researchers showed for the first time how a virus can coxsackievirus from a kind of B4 That stimulates diabetes.
Scientists had suspected that some viruses could cause diabetes in humans, but the molecular mechanisms of them are unknown, and for the current study, researchers worked with animal models grafted into human pancreatic cells infected with CVB4 They also studied insulin-producing cells in humans and mice that were infected with the same virus.
The researchers said that these results could also be relevant during the epidemic caused by the Coronavirus, as various studies have proven a link between viral infection and diabetes, according to lead author Dagoder and his team, the receptors for the new Corona virus are expressed in the endocrine pancreas, and it can work and perform To developing diabetes in the same way that CVB4 works, regardless of immune reactions, the study results also shed light on the pathological effects of the Coronavirus, which is currently wreaking havoc around the world.
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