In a race against time to save the cognition of millions, those who drew parallels to ME/CFS find themselves the tortoise and a protein operating mechanistically as HIV's Tat, the hare.
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SARS-CoV-2 targets ribosomal RNA biogenesis https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/pdf/S2211-1247(24)00219-5.pdf
SARS-CoV-2 Viroporin E Induces Ca2+ Release and Neuron Cell Death in Primary Cultures of Rat Hippocampal Cells Aged In Vitro https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11203731/
HIV-1 protein Tat induces apoptosis of hippocampal neurons by a mechanism involving caspase activation, calcium overload, and oxidative stress https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9878167/