The scientist explained how children's nasopharynxes save them from coronavirus
Science has found an explanation for the fact that children are much less likely than adults to become infected with coronavirus infection.
This was stated in an interview with Izvestia by Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chief Researcher of the Department of Genomic Medicine of the Research Institute of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductology (AGiR) named after. BEFORE. Otta, chief specialist of St. Petersburg and the North-West region of the Russian Federation in medical genetics Vladislav Baranov.
The publication asked why children rarely get sick with COVID-19.
“Yes, it’s almost clear. The possibility of infection depends on the receptors of angiotensin-converting enzymes 2: ACE2 or ACE2 [proteins in the human body that are the point of “entry” of SARS-CoV-2 into the cell]. It has been studied in detail. It turns out that the higher the density of these receptors in the nasopharynx, the easier it is to become infected. It is believed that children do not yet have enough of these receptors, while adults already have enough. That’s why there’s such a difference in infection,” the scientist said.
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