More Flu Virus Attack Heavy Men

Diseases that threaten people in the rainy season like now is the flu. Although the disease is often underestimated, but in men the effect could be more severe than if the flu virus in women. In men, the flu can be debilitating and make men can not get up from her bed. While in women the effect is not bad. The difference in the effects of this flu virus was caused because the women did have a higher pain threshold than men. Factor "protector" Another sex hormone estrogen. A team from Johns Hopkins University revealed that estrogen has a direct antiviral effect against the virus A Influenza, commonly known as the flu."Estrogen therapy is now only used to treat infertility and menopause may also be able to protect themselves against the flu, "said study lead author, Dr. Sabra Klein. Previous research has shown that estrogen also has antiviral properties against HIV infection, 

Ebola and hepatitis virus.The virus infects the body and cause disease by way of entry into the cell and divides itself in stem cells , When separated from cells that have been infected, the virus spreads throughout the body. The amount of virus that replicates determine the severity of the disease. The less virus replica, then the effect of malignancy is small and likely to transmit the disease to others lower. The researchers examined how estrogen can affect the ability of flu viruses to replica. Research performed by collecting cells nasal - which is a major cell type of flu infect - from both donor men and women. Cell culture that has been exposed to the virus, estrogen, estrogen bisphenol A and module selective estrogen receptor (SERMs) - compounds that act like estrogen and is used in hormone therapy. The scientists established that estrogen, compounds SERM raloxifene and bisphenol A reduces replication of the flu virus in nasal cells of women.However, they found no evidence that estrogen can reduce the replication of the virus in men. For the antiviral effect of estrogen, the team found that the effect of entry through estrogen receptors.Receptors are protein structures that are bound to molecules to develop cell response. (Gibran Linggau)