{"id":450,"date":"2023-06-07T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=450"},"modified":"2023-10-07T21:35:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T01:35:40","slug":"researchers-discover-that-covid-19-can-cause-brain-cells-to-fuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/researchers-discover-that-covid-19-can-cause-brain-cells-to-fuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover that COVID-19 can cause brain cells to fuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Researchers at The University of Queensland have discovered that SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses can cause brain cells to fuse, initiating malfunctions that lead to chronic neurological symptoms.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"research-citation\">Ram\u00f3n Mart\u00ednez-M\u00e1rmol et al., SARS-CoV-2 infection and viral fusogens cause neuronal and glial fusion that compromises neuronal activity. <i>Sci. Adv.<\/i> <b>9<\/b>, eadg2248 (2023). DOI:&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/sciadv.adg2248\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1126\/sciadv.adg2248<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>Researchers at The University of Queensland have discovered that SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses can cause brain cells to fuse, initiating malfunctions that lead to chronic neurological symptoms.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/researchers-discover-that-covid-19-can-cause-brain-cells-to-fuse\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Researchers discover that COVID-19 can cause brain cells to fuse<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37,190,46,18,38,11,66,65,8,14,64],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-brain-damage","tag-cognitive-impairment","tag-cognitive-issues","tag-covid-19","tag-dementia","tag-long-covid","tag-neuronal-fusion","tag-neurons","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-syncytia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}