Is Long COVID Caused By An Antibody? Science Explains

Is Long COVID Caused By An Antibody? Science Explains
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Medical science scientists of UAMS claimed the probable explanation for persistent COVID-19 effects might have been identified and be related to an antibody. An antibody that appears weeks after an onset of an infection and assaults and alters an important immune system regulation is at the core of the team’s discoveries.

Long-term tiredness, cognitive confusion, and breathlessness occur to as many as 30percent of total COVID patients. Researchers have been baffled by what generates long COVID-19. Still, the finding by the UAMS team offers crucial new information on the mechanics underneath at the cellular scale.

By targeting the angiotensin-converting enzyme, the antibody causes difficulties for the immune system. The ACE2 enzyme enables the body to control its reaction to the infection by breaking down an immune system-activating peptide. The antibody attacking affects the action of ACE2, making the antibody a suspicion of long-term disease.

“If we show that the whole hypothesis is right, that this interference of ACE2 really does cause long COVID, then it opens up many potential treatments. If our next steps confirm that this antibody is the cause of long COVID symptoms, there are medications that should work to treat them. If we get to that phase of research, the next step would be to test these drugs and hopefully relieve people of the symptoms they’re having,” explained John Arthur, chief of the Division of Nephrology in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine.

Long Covid refers to the time period after COVID-19 that continues to affect the health of many individuals. There are two major kinds of continuing symptoms: tiny groups of patients who originally suffered from severe covid-19 disease suffer long-term from respiratory symptoms, while larger groups have more normal symptoms such as weariness and lethargy.


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