SciShow: Immune NETs: What COVID and Snake Venoms Have in Common

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Content of the Lesson: When faced with threats ranging from snake bites to COVID infections, some white blood cells retaliate with a peculiar tactic: spewing out their own DNA to form pathogen-trapping nets. But research suggests that sometimes this web-deploying response might do our bodies more harm than good. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, James Knight, Sam Buck, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg, Lehel Kovacs, Bd_Tmprd ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22956760/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28149530/ https://doi.org/10.1038/s41423-018-0024-0 https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2016.00366 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11361 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22817992/ https://doi.org/10.1038/nri.2017.105 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpath.2011.03.013 https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2020007008 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28220120/ https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI84538 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25149285/ Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/neutrophil-a-white-blood-cell-gm1048931502-280545059 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/coronavirus-cell-isolated-gm1210775161-350892985 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/snake-bite-gm112118525-10612580 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/neutrophil-cell-gm693388068-128042621 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phagocytosis2.png https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/107287.php https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/brain-gm182781752-12873853 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/218714.php https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/virus-isolated-on-white-background-gm978684482-265983367 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/streptococcus-gm508319558-84969741 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/236098.php https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/test-tube-in-laboratory-gm184654324-18158607 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/basophil-granulocyte-gm176977366-26401131 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/a-tangled-horror-wet-decorative-spider-web-on-black-background-gm1135102676-301850861


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