by INRAE—National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment Pathophysiological impact of early corticoid treatment on SARS-CoV-2 infection. (A) Experimental design to evaluate the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infected hamsters with sub-cutaneous (SC) corticoid treatment started at 2 dpi until 11 dpi (days post infection) (B) Viral load in nasal swab collected from 1 to 5...
By Kelsey Ables; December 22, 2022 at 5:45 a.m. EST Persistent loss of smell has left some covid-19 survivors yearning for the scent of their freshly bathed child or a waft of their once-favorite meal. It’s left others inured to the stink of garbage and accidentally drinking spoiled milk. “Anosmia,” as experts call it, is one...
by Duke University Medical Center Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The reason some people fail to recover their sense of smell after COVID-19 is linked to an ongoing immune assault on olfactory nerve cells and an associated decline in the number of those cells, a team of scientists led by Duke Health report. The finding, publishing online...
by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers from Columbia University Irving Medical Center, the University of Pennsylvania, the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the New York State Psychiatric Institute has found that a person’s loss of taste or smell due to a COVID-19 infection may be...
by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Graphic showing how SARS-CoV-2 infection in the nasal passages leads to inflammation, which in turn, damages nerve cells and reduces the number of axons (impulse transmitters) available to send odor signals to the olfactory bulb (which helps the brain process them). This often results in weakening or complete...
By Ashley Nash March 10, 2022 12:50 p.m. MST This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the virus that causes COVID-19. Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University are developing a treatment for people who have lost their smell due to COVID-19. NIAID-RML via Associated Press Researchers at Thomas...
by NYU Langone Health Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have discovered a mechanism that may explain why COVID-19 patients lose their sense of smell. Published online February 2 in the journal Cell, the new study found that infection with the pandemic virus, SARS-CoV-2, indirectly dials down the action of olfactory receptors (OR), proteins on the...
by Waun’shae Blount, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Graphic showing the relative size of PM2.5 particulate matter. A new Johns Hopkins Medicine study shows long-term exposure to air pollution with PM2.5 may lead to loss of smell. Credit: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency The loss of smell, a condition known as anosmia, can severely impact a...
January 29, 2021 8.25am EST Editor’s note: Julie Walsh-Messinger is a clinical psychologist who studies the effects of long-term smell loss. Her research has focused on smell loss in people with serious and persistent mental illnesses, but since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, she has also studied smell loss caused by COVID-19. In this...
By JOE PINKSTONE FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 16:00 EST, 22 February 2021 | UPDATED: 16:28 EST, 22 February 2021 Recovered Covid patients who lost their sense of smell and taste after getting infected with the coronavirus may not see their senses return for up to five months. Anosmia, the loss or alteration of smell and taste, is formally recognised as a symptom of...
