{"id":151876,"date":"2020-10-29T15:34:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T14:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=151876"},"modified":"2020-10-29T15:34:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T14:34:18","slug":"scientist-of-poznan-writes-work-on-the-mechanism-of-dexamethasone-transport-in-the-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/scientist-of-poznan-writes-work-on-the-mechanism-of-dexamethasone-transport-in-the-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientist of Pozna\u0144 writes work on the mechanism of dexamethasone transport in the blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr Eng. Dariusz Brzezi\u0144ski, scientist of the Institute of Computer Science of the Pozna\u0144 University of Technology is a co-author of the work on the mechanism of transport of dexamethasone in the blood and its possible impact on the treatment of COVID-19 patients.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The researcher from Pozna\u0144 worked with scientists from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, University of South Carolina and the Medical University of Bia\u0142ystok. Scientists have determined how a protein in our blood, called serum albumin, takes dexamethasone and carries it to where it is needed. Low serum albumin levels are considered a major risk factor.<\/p>\n<p>A new discovery regarding the transport of dexamethasone, (a drug that can increase the chances of survival for patients with severe COVID-19), suggests that diabetes and other factors could reduce its potentially life-saving effectiveness. Based on their findings, the researchers say doctors may need to rethink the dosing of the drug for specific groups of patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Eng. Dariusz Brzezi\u0144ski, scientist of the Institute of Computer Science of the Pozna\u0144 University of Technology is a co-author of the work on the mechanism of transport of dexamethasone in the blood and its possible impact on the treatment of COVID-19 patients. The researcher from Pozna\u0144 worked with scientists from the University of Virginia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}