{"id":15918,"date":"2021-01-09T15:48:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T14:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/?p=15918"},"modified":"2021-01-12T13:00:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T12:00:43","slug":"repurposing-for-covid-19-anti-inflammatory-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/2021\/01\/09\/repurposing-for-covid-19-anti-inflammatory-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Repurposing for covid-19 &#8211; anti-inflammatory drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Hyper-inflammation, whereby the immune system goes into overdrive and destroys the organs, is how covid-19 tends to kill.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The search for suitable anti-inflammatory drugs for covid-19 has already turned up one, dexamethasone. It is a cheap steroid that dampens the immune system across the board. In contrast, tocilizumab and sarilumab are more targeted. They are both made of antibodies that block the effect of interleukin-6, a protein that stokes the immune response and has been prominent in patients with covid-19.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/science-and-technology\/2021\/01\/07\/another-life-saving-treatment-is-found-for-covid-19?fsrc=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=the-economist-today&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&amp;utm_term=2021-01-07&amp;utm_content=article-link-6&amp;etear=nl_today_6\">Repurposing drugs &#8211; Another life-saving treatment is found for covid-19 | Science &amp; technology | The Economist<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyper-inflammation, whereby the immune system goes into overdrive and destroys the organs, is how covid-19 tends to kill. The search for suitable anti-inflammatory drugs for covid-19 has already turned up one, dexamethasone. It is a cheap steroid that dampens the immune system across the board. In contrast, tocilizumab and sarilumab are more targeted. They are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/2021\/01\/09\/repurposing-for-covid-19-anti-inflammatory-drugs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Repurposing for covid-19 &#8211; anti-inflammatory drugs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2282],"tags":[2736,2735],"class_list":["post-15918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-covid-19","tag-anti-inflammatorisk-behandling","tag-gigt","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15921,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15918\/revisions\/15921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}