Patna: In significant research, medical scientists, including those from AIIMS-Patna, have identified the molecules responsible for carrying the Covid virus to the human brain that leads to brain cell damage, called neurons.
Research assumes its importance because it will be easy to develop drugs to block the molecules responsible for the Pandemic virus as a safest treatment method.
These findings were delivered to a group of international scientists and media on Tuesday as part of the Silver Annual Meeting of the Jubilee Society of Neuroscience, which will be held in Chicago, USA, on November 9, other institutions related to the research are PGI Chandigarh.
, IIT Gandhinagar and Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Mumbai.
The leader of the AIIMS-P team, Dr.
Ashutosh Kumar from the Anatomy Department, said that “this study was conducted in all these institutions using various tools and methodologies and postmortem brain studies from the covid deceased for gene expression and protein that identified a series of new molecules, NRP 1 And Furin, who brings a virus to the brain.
“These molecules are present in the smell nerve, nerves in the nose, send odor signals to the brain.
Therefore, the nose can be the main route through which the virus enters the brain.
He said this is the reason why the loss of the smell is one of the important symptoms of covid patients.
“Achieving the brain through the smell, these molecules, which are protein, damaging neurons, leading to a number of physiological disorders and in some cases even death.
This research is based on observations and examinations in the postmortem brain during the second wave of pandemics that hit Bihar and many Other countries earlier this year.
“In studies in post-covid patients, we found 30% of them had developed several neurological problems such as anxiety, depression, and partially losing memory.
It can also be caused by the effect of these molecules in the brain even after recovery from disease, “said Dr.
Ashutosh.
He said data on postmortem brain studies owned by institutions related to the study concluded that a series of NRP molecules, supported by furin molecules , facilitating the covid virus aisle through the brain to the brain.
According to Dr.
Sanjeev Kumar, Covid Nodal Officer at AIIMS-P, at all 11,371 Covid patients were treated at his hospital in two waves of pandemic, where 1220 died.