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To: DugwayDuke

The S-protein alone is a problem. How the hell did you miss that? That is the point of this study.

Here, I’ll help you out.

“ In the new study, the researchers created a “pseudovirus” that was surrounded by SARS-CoV-2 classic crown of spike proteins, but did not contain any actual virus. Exposure to this pseudovirus resulted in damage to the lungs and arteries of an animal model—proving that the spike protein alone was enough to cause disease. Tissue samples showed inflammation in endothelial cells lining the pulmonary artery walls.

The team then replicated this process in the lab, exposing healthy endothelial cells (which line arteries) to the spike protein. They showed that the spike protein damaged the cells by binding ACE2. This binding disrupted ACE2’s molecular signaling to mitochondria (organelles that generate energy for cells), causing the mitochondria to become damaged and fragmented.

Previous studies have shown a similar effect when cells were exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but this is the first study to show that the damage occurs when cells are exposed to the spike protein on its own.”


53 posted on 05/10/2021 4:13:23 PM PDT by zek157
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To: zek157

zek157 wrote: “The S-protein alone is a problem. How the hell did you miss that? That is the point of this study. Here, I’ll help you out.”

It looks like you’re the one who needs help:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/05/04/spike-protein-behavior

From this article: “I’ve been getting a lot of questions in the last few days about several Spike-protein-related (and vaccine-related) topics, so I thought this would be a good time to go into them. There’s been a recent report about the vascular effects of the Spike protein alone (not coronavirus infection per se), and another presentation on similar effects in lung tissue. These are almost certainly looking at the same phenomena – the lungs are of course full of vascular tissue, and what’s being seen in both cases is very likely mediated by effects on the vascular endothelium.”

and:
“So I’ve been getting questions about what this means for vaccination: if we’re causing people to express Spike protein via mRNA or adenovirus vectors, are we damaging them just as if they’d been infected with coronavirus? Fortunately, the answer definitely seems to be “no” – in fact, the pseudovirus paper notes near the end that the antibody response generated by vaccination against the Spike protein will be beneficial in two ways, against infection and against the Spike-mediated endothelial damage as well. There are several reasons why the situation is different.”

IOW, just another anti-vaxxer misrepresentation. The anti-vaxxers are so desperate to denigrate the vaccines that they will post almost anything that advances their purpose even if it is inaccurate.


54 posted on 05/11/2021 4:21:25 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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