BEIJING, November 16 Kunming electric China Kexue Yuan Kunming Institute of Zoology, the official website 16 news release, the study team found that the new crown pneumonia aged rhesus monkey model of inflammatory response delay immunopathology mechanism outbreak
Academy of Sciences Over-response of the immune system is considered to be one of the main pathogenesis of new coronary pneumonia.
Earlier, China Kexue Yuan Research Fellow Research Group Zheng Tang Kunming Institute of Zoology found that the new crown virus (SARS-CoV-2) infection Chinese macaques, exhibit similar pathological features of human patients
Academy of Sciences By analyzing the uninfected lung tissue in the early stage of infection, the research team found that the viral infection was not significantly affected by age.
In addition, the inflammatory factors IFN-α- and IL-6 secreting cells in the lung tissues of the elderly rhesus monkeys were greatly increased after infection with the new coronavirus, which provided the basis for the outbreak of inflammation after tissue lesions
Focus on the new crown pneumonia epidemic
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