{"id":57007,"date":"2020-07-15T22:06:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T03:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=57007"},"modified":"2020-07-15T22:06:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T03:06:43","slug":"57007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=57007","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Hebrew U. scientist: Drug could eradicate COVID-19 from lungs in days.<\/a>
\nNew study shows how coronavirus controls metabolism and which FDA-approved drug could stop it<\/em><\/p>\n

Researchers at Israel\u2019s Hebrew University of Jerusalem and New York\u2019s Mount Sinai Medical Center believe they could potentially downgrade COVID-19\u2019s severity into nothing worse than a common cold.
\nNew research by Hebrew University Prof. Ya\u2019acov Nahmias and Sinai\u2019s Dr. Benjamin tenOever revealed that the FDA-approved drug Fenofibrate (Tricor) could reduce SARS-CoV-2\u2019s ability to reproduce or even make it disappear.<\/p>\n

\u201cViruses are parasites,\u201d Nahmias explained to The Jerusalem Post. \u201cThey cannot replicate themselves. They cannot make new viruses. They have to get inside a human cell and then hijack that cell.\u201d
\nAs such, Nahmias and tenOever spent the last three months studying what SARS-CoV-2 is doing to human lung cells. What they found is that the novel coronavirus prevents the routine burning of carbohydrates, which results in large amounts of fat accumulating inside lung cells \u2013 a condition the virus needs to reproduce.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy understanding how the SARS-CoV-2 controls our metabolism, we can wrestle back control from the virus and deprive it from the very resources it needs to survive,\u201d Nahmias said, noting that it also may help explain why patients with high blood sugar and cholesterol levels are often at a particularly high risk to develop COVID-19.<\/p>\n

The team then reviewed a panel of eight already-approved drugs that could possibly interfere with the virus\u2019s ability to reproduce. Tricor caused the cells to start burning fat, Nahmias said. The result was that the virus almost completely disappeared within only five days of treatment.<\/p>\n

The experiment was done in lab studies both in Israel and New York and was replicated several times with different lung samples. Nahmias said there is a strong indication that the experiment is highly repeatable in other labs.<\/p>\n

The team is advancing to animal studies in New York and hoping to fast-track clinical studies in both Israel and the US within the next couple of weeks, since the drug is already proven safe.<\/p>\n

The study is being published in this week\u2019s Cell Press\u2019s Sneak Peak. The work is being funded by the European Research Council, the Nikoh Foundation and the Sam and Rina Frankel Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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