Cambridge, UK, 18 August 2016, 10:45 – REGNUM Experts from the University of Cambridge studied the effect of the biological clock of the body on exposure to viral diseases. It was found that the virus is spreading more quickly at night than during the day, the experimental results published in the journal PNAS.
The team of biologists led by Professor Ahileshem Reddy conducted experiments on mice, that one half were days in the light, and the other half – in the dark. As it turned out, in a period when rodents are filled, the propagation velocity of the herpes virus in their body was 10 times higher than at the time when they depart from sleep.
Then the same experiment was performed in mice, lacking the gene responsible for circadian rhythms – changes in the intensity of biological processes depending on the time of day. In this case, the virus infects the body with the same high speed
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