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originally posted by: TheAMEDDDoc
a reply to: rickymouse
It’s great for identifying sepsis in nasty infections. Only other thing I would be interested in with this and related studies would be the impact on integrins.
Why? Well because people with cardiovascular and lung diseases may already have an issue with this phospholipid and with COVID and even bacterial infections, there is your problem. Plus with integrins, then migration, then signaling issues, you have all these pro inflammatory processes kicking up like NFKB and others, person could die and their cardiovascular system is also shot.
originally posted by: TheAMEDDDoc
a reply to: rickymouse
Yes, it would attract innate and adaptive immune cells to the area with higher expression of the phospholipids. So you have integrins being activated and used, changing their structure to facilitate movement and infiltration of tissues by these cells. So they could increase inflammation and it could easily get a little haywire. Integrins are used for migration, movement, walking, etc. through tissues by cells that move. Plus, they serve as organization and binding sites for tissue migration and generation of new tissue like in angiogenesis, or even differentiation and specialization in tissue types.
But with both of these already negatively elevated in people with cardiovascular inflammatory disease like heart disease or type 2 diabetes. Then expression is driven up even more by SARS-CoV-2 or secondary infection. That’s a huge problem and great find.
Looking at thinks backwards is what we need right now. It helps to have people looking at different areas, we often get tunnel vision on our target and miss what could be influenced down or upstream from that target.
originally posted by: TheAMEDDDoc
a reply to: rickymouse
Maybe your overthinking it’s role. It’s one of the most common membrane lipids in our cells, it can easily be formed into a micelle or lipid bilayered particle with hydrophilic tails on the inside and hydrophobic on the outside. Like a mini cell, plus you can organize structures using it to place identifiers and organizational constructs similar to lipid rafts. It’s a precursor to sphingomyelin in our cells plus other lipids and is involved in the formation of those lipid rafts or signaling structures that float in our cells. They’re like signal and protein rich islands floating in the membrane.
originally posted by: TheAMEDDDoc
a reply to: rickymouse
It is cool, all resulting from evolution while exposed to a polar molecule. Water and carbon has heavily influenced absolutely everything. I would love to see something based on something else. That would be one of the coolest things imaginable. Water is also why paper clips stick to peoples arms.