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Researchers discover key pathway for COVID organ damage in adults (Fibrinogen)
Medical Xpress / Emory University / Nature Communications ^ | April 5, 2023 | Samuel Druzak et al

Posted on 04/08/2023 9:11:16 AM PDT by ConservativeMind

Since the emergence of COVID-19, much remains unknown, including the widespread organ damage beyond just the lungs. Increasingly, scientists are learning organ dysfunction results from damage to the blood vessels, but why is unclear. Now a team has discovered what they believe is the key molecular pathway.

Results show COVID-19 damages the cells lining the smallest blood vessels, choking off blood flow.

"We were surprised by the little overlap between our adult and pediatric patients," says Cheryl Maier, MD, Ph.D. "One pathway that stood out in adults was related to vessel health and blood flow."

Maier says this was particularly interesting given their observations that blood from patients severely ill with COVID-19 was unusually viscous: think maple syrup rather than water.

Since the earliest days of the pandemic, physicians have seen that a blood protein called fibrinogen was extremely elevated in patients with severe COVID-19. The body forms blood clots in part by cutting fibrinogen to form fibrin, a key component of clots, but fibrinogen itself is not thought to form clots and levels are not affected by anticlotting medications.

The researchers found that in COVID-19 patients, the sky-high levels of fibrinogen cause red blood cells to clump together, altering blood flow and directly damaging the endothelial glycocalyx, a gelatinous protective layer lining the microvessels. "Fibrinogen is one of the top proteins in plasma," Maier says. "It's been hiding in plain sight."

Taken together, these data suggest fibrinogen-induced red blood cell aggregation and resulting microvascular damage could be the major pathway by which COVID causes organ damage and even death.

There's presently no medications targeting high fibrinogen in the blood. However the team has done exploratory research using therapeutic plasma exchange: removing plasma with high fibrinogen from COVID-19 patients and replacing it with donor plasma that has normal fibrinogen levels.

(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: bloodvessels; chinavirus; covid; covid19; fibrinogen
Actually, nattokinase and serrapeptase can breakdown fibrinogen and both can be bought as supplements.

I’ll post a study on each, next.

1 posted on 04/08/2023 9:11:16 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
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To: ConservativeMind

Nattokinase decreases plasma levels of fibrinogen, factor VII, and factor VIII in human subjects
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19358933/

Serratiopeptidase, A Serine Protease Anti-Inflammatory, Fibrinolytic, and Mucolytic Drug, Can Be a Useful Adjuvant for Management in COVID-19
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2021.603997/full


2 posted on 04/08/2023 9:12:42 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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3 posted on 04/08/2023 9:13:15 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Thanks for this article.


4 posted on 04/08/2023 9:22:06 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: ConservativeMind

Thank you for all this great information you provide.


5 posted on 04/08/2023 9:22:36 AM PDT by KittyKares
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To: ConservativeMind

Interesting. I do seem to remember that there was debate about whether patients should be put on blood thinners in early stages of the disease. I can understand concerns about risk. Maybe those supplements would lower the typical risks.


6 posted on 04/08/2023 9:24:13 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Thanks for the links.


7 posted on 04/08/2023 9:27:07 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: ConservativeMind

So just like they said in “Died Suddenly.”

Damn you authoritarian globalist corporatist scum to hell. This is mass murder.


8 posted on 04/08/2023 9:39:07 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: ConservativeMind

Pathways, apparently made more agressive, per multiple studies, via the risky $hots :-(

FLCCC (real) docs/scientists have been recommending nattokinase, as part of their post-jab (and, china virus) protocol, for months.

https://covid19criticalcare.com/treatment-protocols/i-recover/

It is a shame that these $hots do not prevent/protect, but, appear to increase odds of contracting china (and, other) viruses.


9 posted on 04/08/2023 9:42:22 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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The mechanisms of action of ivermectin against SARS-CoV-2—an extensive review

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41429-021-00491-6

a surprising number of ways ivermectin combats covid...


10 posted on 04/08/2023 10:13:54 AM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGA,A.)
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To: ConservativeMind

After reading the article I surfed the internet looking for the supplements and found this one which contains nattokinase and serrapeptase.

https://www.iherb.com/pr/arthur-andrew-medical-neprinol-afd-advanced-fibrin-defense-500-mg-150-capsules/23710


11 posted on 04/08/2023 10:15:32 AM PDT by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines

Conclusions: Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. **Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease.** The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34145166/


12 posted on 04/08/2023 10:24:44 AM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGA,A.)
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To: CaptainK

Great find!

Will buy some for dear friends/fam who took these horrid $hots.


13 posted on 04/08/2023 10:46:00 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: ConservativeMind

Dr. Roger Seheult was exploring and discussing the role of fibrinogen, fibrin, and endothelial cells back in April 2020. His daily “COVID Updates” covered it. He recognized it is more of a vascular disease than a respiratory disease. The damage to the alveoli in the lungs inhibits gas exchange.


14 posted on 04/08/2023 10:56:22 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone els)
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To: ConservativeMind

If serrapeptase is too strong for someone, bromelain or quercetin can also do this to a degree.


15 posted on 04/08/2023 11:15:59 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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I couldn’t tell, did they segregate those who had the Jab and covid from the non Jabbed covid group. IOW, were they looked at separately or just anyone who had it?


16 posted on 04/08/2023 11:58:48 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: ConservativeMind

Is there a way to determine of an individual is actually effected?


17 posted on 04/08/2023 12:09:11 PM PDT by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

It was vaccine agnostic.


18 posted on 04/08/2023 1:16:26 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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It was vaccine agnostic

Then for me at least it is of no value. There is very reasonable evidence of blood issues with the shot. There needs to be that separation of the virus with and without the shot or the research loses much of its validity. Simply put, it's bad science not to make more effort to isolate pertinent variables.

That's one of the most important things in research, isolating for potentially relevant variables. Otherwise the conclusions are not much better than anecdotal. How do we know that "unJabed" people who had covid are equally experiencing these blood issues?

19 posted on 04/08/2023 2:39:53 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: ConservativeMind

Thanks.
BKMK


20 posted on 04/08/2023 6:26:39 PM PDT by Faith65 (Isaiah 40:31 )
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