Covid-19 can cause brain fog and confusion in some cases, with new research suggesting the coronavirus enters the brain by building tiny tubes it shuttles through from nose cells
seems to have a sneaky way of getting into cells that lack the ACE2 receptor via cells that do have it.They conducted experiments in a dish with the coronavirus and two different cell types. One called SH-SY5Y was used to model human brain cells. The other cell type, Vero E6, was used to model cells that line body surfaces, including the nose.
Zooming up close, they saw the virus using these tunnels to shuttle between the two cell types. Nanotubes are already known to transport certain structures and other viral particles between distant cells.
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