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Covid Virus May Tunnel Through Nanotubes from Nose to Brain
- walterbell 4y agoHIV-like technique for attacking brain cells and evading immune system? > the findings could explain why some people who get COVID-19 experience brain fog and other neurological symptoms ...The nanotube route “is a shortcut that propagates infection fast and between different organs ... it might be also a way for the virus to hide and escape the immune response.” ... The experiments also showed that cells infected with the coronavirus grew far more tunneling nanotubes than uninfected cells, suggesting that the virus itself spurs a cell to put out these connectors. SARS-CoV-2 isn’t the only pathogen that controls cells in this way. HIV also takes advantage of tunneling nanotubes to move between cells, and the Marburg virus triggers the growth of filopodia.