Momentary loss of smell, or anosmia, is a typical sign of COVID-19, and one study just recently figured out the cell key ins the upper nasal cavity most vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The research group led by neuroscientists at Harvard Medical School (HMS) found that non-neuronal cell types might be accountable for loss of smell in coronavirus clients. Their findings were just recently released in Science Advances
” Our findings indicate that the novel coronavirus alters the sense of smell in patients not by straight contaminating neurons but by affecting the function of supporting cells,” stated Sandeep Robert Datta, senior research study author and associate professor of neurobiology in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS, in a university press release
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Researchers state olfactory assistance cells, not neurons, are vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection. (iStock).
This finding implies that infection is not likely to cause long lasting damage and pers