John Connolly and Masataka Nishiga discuss the effects of SARS-CoV-2 on the neurological and cardiovascular systems.

Looking at the future of neurodegeneration research!

These “coarse-grained” plaques resemble those that clog up the brain’s blood vessels in a different disease, pointing to links between the vascular system and the neurodegenerative disease.

When mice that had suffered a stroke were given blood from a healthy donor, they experienced less tissue and neurological damage.

Functional proteomics detects elevated neuroinflammatory markers in patient plasma and cerebrospinal fluid!

The authors propose that the shots might keep the immune system primed to battle diseases that would otherwise contribute to cognitive decline.

The results are a proof-of-concept that the novel coronavirus can replicate in neurons, but it’s too soon to say whether this occurs in people with COVID-19.

SARS-CoV-2 generally attacks the lungs, but researchers are also stressing its effects on the brain in a fraction of patients.

The cell conversion strategy restores neurons and motor functions lost as a result of an induced Parkinson’s-like illness in the animals.