ANTI-VENOM compound blocks the very enzyme that is associated with increased covid-19 mortality – newstarget.com

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“Well, we’ll just to wait and see where all this snake venom business goes.”  Admin

 

The American Society for Clinical Investigation published research investigating the biochemical properties of plasma taken from deceased covid-19 patients. The team of researchers wanted to “identify the cellular and molecular mechanisms responsible for severe COVID-19 that led to death.” Patients with severe covid-19 showed mitochondrial dysfunction and elevated metabolites associated with secreted phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) activity. This is the same enzyme that is elevated after a venomous snake bite. Could this increase in sPLA2 be the body’s natural reaction to infection, or could it be an indicator that the body is infected/poisoned by something more nefarious — perhaps venomous particles?

 

“Deceased COVID-19 patients had higher levels of circulating, catalytically active sPLA2 group IIA (sPLA2-IIA), with a median value that was 9.6-fold higher than that for patients with mild disease and 5.0-fold higher than the median value for survivors of severe COVID-19,” the study authors wrote.

 

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