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Macaque model reveals why elderly people with new coronary pneumonia are more sick

 Last Update: 2021-12-01
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Science and Technology Daily (Reporter Zhao Hanbin) Understanding the immunopathological characteristics of the occurrence of new coronary pneumonia is of great significance to the prevention and treatment of new coronary pneumonia

Over-response of the immune system is considered to be one of the main pathogenesis of new coronary pneumonia, and primates provide a good model for the dynamic study of the pathological mechanism of new coronary pneumonia

The age-related abnormal immune microenvironment may have formed in the early stage of new coronavirus infection and continue to affect the disease progression of elderly patients

In addition, after the elderly rhesus monkeys were infected with the new coronavirus, the inflammatory factor secreting cells in the lung tissue increased greatly, which provided the basis for the outbreak of inflammation after tissue lesions

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