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Coronavirus Outbreak: In a first, doctors treat COVID-19 patient with anti-HIV medicine - The Financial Express
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The combination of the anti-HIV drugs was used on several patients in China’s , and has reportedly also been tested on patients in and .

"the hospital is administering the medicine to the UK patient with his consent, and they got the approval of the State Medical Board and the Indian Council of Medical Research ( ). He further said that he couldn’t comment on the effectiveness of the drug as it was too early to tell"

A look at how biosafety scientists balance the need to learn about deadly pathogens and the danger of working with them. t.co/890Zs6dwDi

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🔸 The central nervous system has to go from the caudal end of the spinal cord all the way to the front of the brain.

🔸 The neural plate is making the neural tube. And the central portion of the neuroectoderm folds up, and then it folds and closes and becomes a tube.

🔸 Neural tube is going to become central nervous system. Neural crest is going to become peripheral nervous system plus a lot of other stuff like melanocytes.

🔸 By the end of day 21 of gestation, we already have an invagination; and by the end of the fourth week, we're going to have a tube that stretches from one end to the other.

🔸 And the way this works is that the flat plate of neuroectoderm, invaginates — it folds in. It is called 'neural fold' or 'neural groove'.

🔸 And then that increases until you have almost a tube — people will call this an omega shape — and then that does in fact become a tube.

🔸 After the tube forms, other tissues have to come in and cover the nervous system — that's important. We don't want our nervous system to be exposed. This whole process takes a week.

🔸 And around the region where the neck of the adult will be, the neural tube first closes up.

🔸 There's one last opening where they meet. And that's called a neuropore.

🖼️ Images from: Screengrab at coursera.org/learn/neurobiolog and researchgate.net/figure/Format

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