Brain blood vessel damage

SARS-CoV-2 infects cells lining the brain’s blood vessels, causing high levels of inflammation and damage to vessels and tissues that can lead to an array of cognitive and neurological problems.

The virus thrives in these brain-adjacent cells and can use them to disrupt the blood-brain barrier and enter the brain itself.

Source: SARS-CoV-2 productively infects human brain microvascular endothelial cells | Journal of Neuroinflammation | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)


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