Research published in ‘Nature’
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They look a lot like what doctors see in the brains of people who die from Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s
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Inflammation of the brain and deterioration of “neural circuits” seen in people who die of Covid-19 look a lot like what doctors see in the brains of people who die of diseases neurodegenerative like the disease of Alzheimer and the disease of Parkinsonthe study researchers reported to the journal Nature.
Analyzes of the brain tissue of eight people who died from Covid-19 and of 14 others who died of other causes showed “surprising changes” in the brains of patients with coronavirusthe investigator of the Stanford UniversityTony Wyss-Coray.
Your team of Stanford, together with his colleagues from the Saarbruecken University (Germany), analyzed thousands of genes in each of the 65,309 individual cells taken from the brain tissue samples.
Schizophrenia and depression, more “active”
They also found that genes related to cognition, schizophrenia, and depression were “turned on” more frequently in the brains of patients with diabetes. Covid-19.
Wyss-Coray said her team could not find the virus itself in the brain, suggesting that “infection with the virus in the rest of the body may be enough to cause neurological symptoms, even in people who do not die from the disease. “
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