“They found that the infected astrocytes induced apoptosis in the neurons, indicating that the virus infection could trigger events that could kill neurons.”
Translation. COVID makes your body kill your brain cells. They don’t grow back.
news-medical.net/amp/news/20201…
Translation. COVID makes your body kill your brain cells. They don’t grow back.
news-medical.net/amp/news/20201…
By the way, SARS-CoV-2 is not the only coronavirus that does this. It just happens to do it to the point that people feel the symptoms and suffer *much more often* than the other coronaviruses that normally circulate.
No, that doesn’t mean it will automatically get milder. It does mean we should have anticipated this and acted much sooner to save millions of people from losing precious brain cells.
This is a study *in mice* showing that if the circumstances are just right, adult brain tissue may be able to regenerate after injury in certain areas of the brain. (Limited capacity).
So there is hope… but time will tell how much hope in humans.
sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/…
So there is hope… but time will tell how much hope in humans.
sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/…
The issue being that if the architecture is lost, misdirection can occur when connections are made, or the connection may be lost.
Like trying to rewire without a map.
Like trying to rewire without a map.
There is also the problem of scar tissue getting in the way, but that would be less frequent with apoptosis and more frequent with necrosis (say after a clot or a lost/blocked blood vessel).
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