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phylny

(8,352 posts)
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 08:22 AM Nov 2020

A New Use for an Old Drug: UVA Researchers Discover Potential COVID-19 Treatment

CHARLOTTESVILLE – Before COVID-19 ever hit America’s radar, a professor at the University of Virginia discovered a way to treat it. It’s 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 UVA’s 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.

More:

https://vadogwood.com/2020/11/20/a-new-use-for-an-old-drug-uva-researchers-discover-potential-covid-19-treatment/

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A New Use for an Old Drug: UVA Researchers Discover Potential COVID-19 Treatment (Original Post) phylny Nov 2020 OP
KnR Hugin Nov 2020 #1
Excellent news. This is the kind of stuff I expected from our country. lark Nov 2020 #2
K&R. nt Wednesdays Nov 2020 #3
K&R! Native Nov 2020 #4
Happy pills for everyone! AwakeAtLast Nov 2020 #5
I have life time tremors from safeinOhio Nov 2020 #11
KNR niyad Nov 2020 #6
Luvox is an SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor). I wonder if other Mike 03 Nov 2020 #7
KnR Sherman A1 Nov 2020 #8
Good news- needs study James48 Nov 2020 #9
Check this post. Good luck s-cubed Nov 2020 #10
God knows we could all use some antidepressants after the last four years. LaMouffette Nov 2020 #12

lark

(22,993 posts)
2. Excellent news. This is the kind of stuff I expected from our country.
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 09:46 AM
Nov 2020

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.

safeinOhio

(32,523 posts)
11. I have life time tremors from
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 11:20 AM
Nov 2020

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.

LaMouffette

(2,009 posts)
12. God knows we could all use some antidepressants after the last four years.
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 11:21 AM
Nov 2020

It's very encouraging that news about new treatments and effective vaccines seems to be coming out every couple of days now.

Go, science!

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