Posted on 04/26/2020 3:11:29 AM PDT by eastexsteve
Researchers at MIT; the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard; and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; along with colleagues from around the world have identified specific types of cells that appear to be targets of the coronavirus that is causing the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Let me guess. Vascular endothelial cells and every cell of the circulating blood volume. Then brain, heart, and Kidney.
It seems to have devastating effects upon all major organs. But, some parts of the body appear to invite it.
Some organs can’t shunt the microemboli through the organ. Brain, heart, kidney are all vascular dead ends into capillaries. From a perfusion standpoint the brain can be considered to be a 2 D plane with the arterial perfusion on one side and the venous drainage on the other. Unless you have an AVM there is no way out but through capillaries. In a sense the heart and kidney are the same way.
In the nasal passages, the researchers found that goblet secretory cells, which produce mucus, express RNAs for both of the proteins that SARS-CoV-2 uses to infect cells. In the lungs, they found the RNAs for these proteins mainly in cells called type II pneumocytes. These cells line the alveoli (air sacs) of the lungs and are responsible for keeping them open.
In the intestine, they found that cells called absorptive enterocytes, which are responsible for the absorption of some nutrients, express the RNAs for these two proteins more than any other intestinal cell type.
Explains why my girlfriend had the worst nausea and headache ever.
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No noticeable fever, minimal coughing, completely recovered.
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