Researchers discover important cause of preeclampsia
Despite being the subject of increasing interest for a whole century, how preeclampsia develops has been unclear - until now.
Researchers believe that they have now found a primary cause of preeclampsia.
We ve found a missing piece to the puzzle. Cholesterol crystals are the key and we re the first to bring this to light.
Gabriela Silva, Researcher
Silva works at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research (CEMIR), a Centre of Excellence, where she is part of a research group for inflammation in pregnancy led by Professor Ann-Charlotte Iversen.
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IMAGE: The results of many years of research have been a long time coming. Gabriela Silva (in the white labocoat) used tissue samples from a biobank, including placenta samples from 90. view more
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Despite being the subject of increasing interest for a whole century, how preeclampsia develops has been unclear - until now.
Researchers believe that they have now found a primary cause of preeclampsia. We ve found a missing piece to the puzzle. Cholesterol crystals are the key and we re the first to bring this to light, says researcher Gabriela Silva.
Silva works at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology s (NTNU) Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research (CEMIR), a Centre of Excellence, where she is part of a research group for inflammation in pregnancy led by Professor Ann-Charlotte Iversen.
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The results of a study led by Northern Arizona University and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, suggest the immune systems of people infected with COVID-19 may rely on antibodies created during infections from earlier coronaviruses to help fight the disease.
COVID-19 isn t humanity s first encounter with a coronavirus, so named because of the corona, or crown-like, protein spikes on their surface. Before SARS-CoV-2 the virus that causes COVID-19 humans have navigated at least 6 other types of coronaviruses.
The study sought to understand how coronaviruses (CoVs) ignite the human immune system and conduct a deeper dive on the inner workings of the antibody response. The published findings, Epitope-resolved profiling of the SARS-CoV-2 antibody response identifies cross-reactivity with endemic human coronaviruses, appear today in the journal Cell Reports Medicine.
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