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A corona infection can show completely different courses. Men often have to be treated in the clinic for Covid-19. Researchers have now found a surprising clue.
- Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic *, researchers around the world have been trying to find out everything about the Sars-CoV-2 virus.
- Why men get more seriously ill with Covid-19 than women has puzzled researchers for a long time.
- Scientists have now found another clue.
Munich: Covid-19 has turned the world upside down. New scientific discoveries appear almost every day. Coronavirus. One issue: even at the beginning of the crown pandemic, men of COVID-19 affected. Also, it appeared that men had more severe coronavirus infections than women.
The specific gender different case numbers in China The researchers tried to explain that it was primarily smokers who were among the severe cases of corona; in China, it was mainly men who smoked. However, experts puzzled why men are hospitalized more often and also die more from Covid-19 than women.
US researchers have now taken a closer look and immune system of infected mens and Woman examined. The scientists wanted to know how the immune system reacts to an infection with Sars-CoV-2. The researchers provided one Difference in typical immune response for male and female participants. According to the researchers, this gender difference could be a important note be. The results of the study were published in the published journal “Nature”. Therefore, the group of people in the test had an average age of around 60 years and consisted of 50 women and 50 men.
Covid-19: How Women and Men React to a Coronavirus Infection
- Woman reacted stronger for a coronavirus infection with immune cells known as T cells are known. Is T cells are white blood cellsthat, in addition to antibodies, play an important role in the human immune system. They are called T cells because they mature in the thymus. There are T cells that recognize and destroy cells in the body that have been infected by a virus. Others activate so-called B cells, which form defense substances, antibodies.
- Both of them mens researchers found a higher level of after a corona infection Cytokines firmly. Cytokines are proteins that indicate certain types of inflammation in the blood. They function as messenger substances and attract other immune cells to sources of inflammation. However, if the immune system overreacts, too much cytokine is produced. This then marks and destroys many healthy cells. The researchers also observed a weaker defense on the part of T cells.
The researchers also found that male patients had a course of serious illness was associated with a poor T-cell immune response and this also declines with age. According to the scientists, the results are a possible explanation for the different course of the disease between men and women. Therefore, it is important to keep this in mind when treating patients.
Are men more susceptible to coronavirus than women? In a European study, researchers found an indication of this: Tests showed that men’s blood had a higher level of a key enzyme called compared to women ACE2 (Angiotensin converting enzyme 2). The Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus uses the ACE2 enzyme as a receptor to enter a host cell and then replicate, that is, multiply. The ACE2 enzyme is found mainly in the lungs, but also in the heart, in the intestines. (ml) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network
