{"id":219821,"date":"2020-04-23T16:15:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T14:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?p=219821"},"modified":"2020-04-23T16:15:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T14:15:23","slug":"anti-rheumatism-drug-that-also-works-on-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/anti-rheumatism-drug-that-also-works-on-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-rheumatism drug that also works on COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

The search for a vaccine against COVID-19 will take months, perhaps even years. Until that time, a drug that can combat the worst symptoms of the virus would be worth its weight in gold. The anti-malarial drug Hydroxychloroquine<\/em>, pushed by Donald Trump, is unlikely to deliver that. But the German Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg<\/a> (FAU) might have found something that does work.<\/p>\n

A research team from the FAU has demonstrated in a study that drugs that are designed to treat autoimmune diseases are capable of inhibiting COVID-19 infections even before the virus has spread into the body.<\/p>\n

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The FAU is an authority when it comes to the treatment of autoimmune diseases such as rheumatism.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The study, published in the scientific journal Nature Reviews Immunology<\/a>, uses what are known as cytokine blockers<\/em> or cytokine inhibitors<\/em>. These are normally used for the treatment of patients with autoimmune diseases such as rheumatism, gastrointestinal inflammation, and psoriasis.<\/p>\n

Autoimmune diseases<\/h3>\n

A study of 1000 test subjects revealed that those test subjects who had taken the cytokine blockers because of their autoimmune conditions were better protected against COVID-19. More so than the other test subjects who were part of a group of volunteer nurses and doctors who hadn’t taken that medicine.<\/p>\n

“It seems that the cytokine inhibitors limit the infection with SARS-COV-2 viruses from the outset. This prevents the production of any antibodies,” says Professor Georg Schett from the FAU.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

COVID-19 is known to trigger a strong immune response that leads to inflammation of the alveoli<\/em> (air sacs) in the lungs. This, in turn, disrupts the gas exchange in the lungs. This inflammatory reaction is caused by cytokine<\/em>, a substance that serves as a messenger in the body. Several of these messenger substances play an important role in diseases such as rheumatism, gastrointestinal inflammation, and psoriasis and can, therefore, be counteracted with cytokine inhibitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The search for a vaccine against COVID-19 will take months, perhaps even years. Until that time, a drug that can combat the worst symptoms of the virus would be worth its weight in gold. The anti-malarial drug Hydroxychloroquine, pushed by Donald Trump, is unlikely to deliver that. But the German Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg (FAU) might […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1723,"featured_media":518765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34665],"tags":[50299,48733,48127,34157,50301,39261,48131],"location":[],"article_type":[],"serie":[],"archives":[],"internal_archives":[],"reboot-archive":[],"class_list":["post-219821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-autoimmune-dieseases","tag-coronavirus-en","tag-covid-19","tag-immune-system","tag-lungs","tag-rheumatism","tag-sars-cov-2"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":{"subtitle":"","text_display_homepage":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"Maurits Kuypers","author_link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/author\/maurits-kuypers\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rheuma_Colourbox-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Health<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Health<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["autoimmune dieseases<\/a>","Coronavirus<\/a>","COVID-19<\/a>","immune system<\/a>","lungs<\/a>","Rheumatism<\/a>","SARS-CoV-2<\/a>"],"unlinked":["autoimmune dieseases<\/span>","Coronavirus<\/span>","COVID-19<\/span>","immune system<\/span>","lungs<\/span>","Rheumatism<\/span>","SARS-CoV-2<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on April 23, 2020","modified":"Updated on April 23, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on April 23, 2020 4:15 pm","modified":"Updated on April 23, 2020 4:15 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219821"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=219821"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=219821"},{"taxonomy":"serie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/serie?post=219821"},{"taxonomy":"archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archives?post=219821"},{"taxonomy":"internal_archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_archives?post=219821"},{"taxonomy":"reboot-archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reboot-archive?post=219821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}