{"id":195252,"date":"2022-07-12T18:37:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T13:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=195252"},"modified":"2022-07-12T18:39:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T13:09:09","slug":"epstein-barr-virusebv-connecting-the-dots-between-virus-infection-and-progress-of-brain-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/epstein-barr-virusebv-connecting-the-dots-between-virus-infection-and-progress-of-brain-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Epstein Barr Virus(EBV): Connecting the dots between virus infection and progress of brain cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Connecting the dots between virus infection and progress of brain cancer<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> PIB <\/b>on<b> 11th July 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists have found that the cancer-causing virus Epstein Barr Virus(EBV) can infect the neuronal cells and drive various changes leading to diseases of the central nervous system as well as brain cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Epstein Barr Virus(EBV)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The EBV virus has been found to be widely present in the human population.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It usually does not cause any harm, but the virus gets reactivated inside the body in some unusual conditions like immunological stress or immunocompetence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This may further lead to various complications like a type of blood cancer called Burkitt\u2019s lymphoma, stomach cancer, multiple sclerosis and so on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier studies provided links to EBV involvement in various neurodegenerative diseases. However, how this virus can affect the cells of the brain and manipulate them is still unexplored.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What have the scientists found out?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists have found that Epstein Barr Virus(EBV) can infect neuronal cells and drive various changes in biomolecules such as fatty acids, carbohydrates and protein components leading to diseases of the central nervous system as well as brain cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the significance of these findings?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This research work aids in the understanding of EBV-mediated biomolecular changes in the various compartments of the central nervous system leading to a better understanding of nervous system diseases.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cConnecting the dots between virus infection and progress of brain cancer\u201d published in PIB on 11th July 2022. What is the News? Scientists have found that the cancer-causing virus Epstein Barr Virus(EBV) can infect the neuronal cells and drive various changes leading to diseases of the central&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/epstein-barr-virusebv-connecting-the-dots-between-virus-infection-and-progress-of-brain-cancer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Epstein Barr Virus(EBV): Connecting the dots between virus infection and progress of brain cancer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-195252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704722087},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}