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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA New Use for an Old Drug: UVA Researchers Discover Potential COVID-19 Treatment
CHARLOTTESVILLE Before COVID-19 ever hit Americas radar, a professor at the University of Virginia discovered a way to treat it. Its not a treatment in the sense that the drug prevents or stops the novel coronavirus. However, it lessens the symptoms if a person contracts the virus.
Professor Alban Gaultier, of UVAs Department of Neuroscience and its Center for Brain Immunology, partnered with former UVA graduate student Dorian Rosen. Together, the pair discovered a link between fluvoxamine, an antidepressant, and sepsis, when the immune system creates too many inflammatory molecules.
The professor and student discovered that the antidepressant reduced cytokine production. That discovery, made last year, struck a chord with Washington University researches studying the coronavirus.
The Washington University School of Medicine team in St. Louis, Missouri, studied whether or not administering the antidepressant could prevent serious complications with COVID, thought to occur from cytokine storms. They displayed impressive findings after a small clinical trial.
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lark
(22,993 posts)This is how I think of America, not a stupid land where 73 million vote for a demented, vicious traitor and criminal who is ok with everyone dying, for his profit.
Wednesdays
(17,244 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,112 posts)And I say this as a person who takes Prozac.
safeinOhio
(32,523 posts)SSRIs.
The one they are using was taken off the market years ago. Abott Labs buys it and now it's back. I'd want to see the research first.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)SSRIs work too.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)James48
(4,416 posts)This needs a much wider study.
s-cubed
(1,385 posts)LaMouffette
(2,009 posts)It's very encouraging that news about new treatments and effective vaccines seems to be coming out every couple of days now.
Go, science!