Coxsackie (named after where it was first identified, in Coxsackie, New York) is an enterovirus that belongs to the family of Picornaviruses. These are small positive-strand RNA viruses without a lipid membrane. It falls under the same genera as polio, echovirus, and other enteroviruses. Its transmission is oro-faecal, and its site of primary infection is the gut. Coxsackie A virus is usually associated with fever, surface rashes, and can cause herpangina, as well as hand,
Read MoreThere is increasing coverage of the connection between the nAChRs (nicotinic acetylcholine receptors) and the modulation of Long Covid. Professor Jeanne-Pierre Changeux, Professor of Neuroscience at the Pasteur Institute, who first identified and purified the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, posed the hypothesis soon after the onset of the Pandemic in April 2020 in “A nicotinic hypothesis for Covid-19 with preventive and therapeutic implications” (i). This was followed by further peer-reviewed studies such as “A potential interaction
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Read MoreIt is often the neurological symptoms that seem to be the most persistent in what has come to be termed “PASC” – Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2. The downregulation of the mitochondria is certainly a huge factor, and the phenomenon profiled in our first article has both mitochondrial stress and oxidation as central features. The topic is disturbance to cholinergic pathways, and this has long been identified in M.E. as well, as far back as the
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