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Was Covid-19 a work-in-progress therapy for cancer treatment? Cancer cells (especially metastatic) have an overexpression of NRP1 (Neuropilin-1). Covid-19 will

by noipv4 6y ago

Was Covid-19 a work-in-progress therapy for cancer treatment? Cancer cells (especially metastatic) have an overexpression of NRP1 (Neuropilin-1). Covid-19 will try to invade NRP1 over-expressing cells and try to destroy them, and hence help with destroying cancerous cells. Am I wrong? https://scholar.google.ch/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_vis=1&q=neuropilin+1+overexpression+cell+types&btnG= https://scholar.google.ch/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_vis=... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6515012/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6515012/

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foxyv 6y ago
Neuropilin 1 is associated with cells in veins and arteries. This study was probably a focus due to the fact that COVID-19 tends to cause vascular issues. Engineering for that would be unwise in a viral treatment due to the fact you can't control dosage enough to keep it from killing the patient by turning their arteries to jello.