Great thread by Dr Gilchrist @jeffgilchrist

How COVID actively suppresses and evades your immune system
“ how mild and moderate #COVID infection reprograms white #blood cells (#monocytes) to reduce #innate #immune functions and how it evades the mucus layer in our #nose”

https://pingthread.com/thread/1612066649934290946

Happy Friday in the lab! Great to be back in the lab all week doing experiments 👩🏻‍🔬 Feeling much less like a hassle and incompetent!
I do however feel like I'm spinning a few too many plates at the moment with the masters, exams, applications, clinical work, QIP/portfolio, let alone trying to find time for the classic "New Year New Me" trope... Trying to stay optimistic and realistic!

#WomenInScience #ClinicalResearcher #MedMastodom #Blood #Neutrophils #Monocytes #laboratorylife #SelfDoubt

My first #toot and a #introduction
Currently in my 2nd year of a PhD studying #immunometabolism in #Monocytes and #macrophages in #Inflammation as a wannabe #clinicianscientist Also full-time servant to a mini panther (Oscar) and currently trying to navigate my way around Mastodon! Looking forward to meeting more people here!

#IDMastodon #Monocytes and #macrophages play a pivotal role in inflammation during acute #SARSCoV2 infection .I This study present evidence that #COVID19 Convalescents exhibit #monocyte alteration beyond the acute #COVID19 infection period even in convalescents with no residual symptoms that may contribute to the development PASC /#LongCovid
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.19.22282543v1.full.pdf+html @medrxivpreprint