Experts: Prioritize COVID-19 vaccine for those with high exposure to PFAS chemicals
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Experts say that people who have high exposure to PFAS chemicals found in food packaging and cleaning products, among other sources should be prioritized for the COVID-19 vaccine. File Photo by Gary I Rothstein /UPI | License Photo
Dec. 17 (UPI) People with higher levels of toxic, manmade chemicals in their bloodstream should be given priority for a COVID-19 vaccine, scientists who represent the Environmental Working Group said Thursday.
This is because these toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals, or PFAS, which are found in many household cleaning products, pesticides and food packaging, appear to adversely affect the human immune system s ability to fight infectious diseases, the scientists said.
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Can making ephemeral anti-inflammatory fatty acids stick around a little longer protect people against Alzheimer’s disease? It just might, according to a study by Hui Zheng and colleagues at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, published December 9 in Science Translational Medicine.
In AD brain and 5xFAD mice, epoxide hydrolase is up and its anti-inflammatory products are down.
Astrocytes express this lipid metabolism enzyme.
In mice, inhibiting it restored epoxy fatty acids and a chain of consequences at molecular, synaptic, and behavioral levels of investigation.
These so-called epoxy fatty acids, or EpFAs, protect neurons; alas, epoxide hydrolases quickly break them down. The scientists found more epoxide hydrolase in brain tissue from people with AD and 5xFAD mice than in controls, corresponding to fewer epoxy fatty acids in the mice. Long-term treatment with an inhibitor curbed the hydrolase and boosted EpFA concentration in the mice’s brains. Inhibiting
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