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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 3500262, member: 37"] I can't help you with the question regarding lumbar puncture. This link sending you to a Wikipedia article should help you, [USER=10566]@87Xfer[/USER], [USER=114]@NJHusky[/USER] and others. It has diagrams. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_entry#Aftermath']Viral Entry[/URL] My comments about hydroxchloroquine were based on two researchers in Great Britain who theorize the Sars-CoV-2 virus works by endocytosis. This article says this about a virus entry via endocytosis: [I]"Viruses with no viral envelope enter the cell through [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocytosis']endocytosis[/URL]; they are ingested by the host cell through the cell membrane. In essence, the virus tricks the cell into thinking that the virus knocking at the door is nothing more than nutrition or harmless goods. A cell, which naturally takes in resources from the environment by attaching goods onto surface receptors and bringing them into the cell, will engulf the virus. Once inside the cell, the virus must now break out of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesicle_(biology_and_chemistry)']vesicle[/URL] by which it was taken up in order to gain access to the cytoplasm. Examples include the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliovirus']poliovirus[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis_C_virus']Hepatitis C virus[/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_entry#cite_note-9'][9][/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-and-mouth_disease_virus']Foot-and-mouth disease virus[/URL].[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_entry#cite_note-10'][10][/URL] Many enveloped viruses also enter the cell through endocytosis. Entry via the endosome guarantees low pH and exposure to proteases which are needed to open the viral capsid and release the genetic material inside."[/I] I'm postulating that if hydroxychloroquine alters the ph in the cytoplasm the virus will remain within the capsule and not continue it's cycle. I'm concerned with what happens when the medication is stopped. [/QUOTE]

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