The signal pathways and treatment of cytokine storm in COVID-19

L Yang, X Xie, Z Tu, J Fu, D Xu, Y Zhou - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has become a global crisis
and is more devastating than any other previous infectious disease. It has affected a …

Inflammasome activation at the crux of severe COVID-19

SM Vora, J Lieberman, H Wu - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2021 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), results in life-threatening disease in a minority of patients, especially elderly …

[HTML][HTML] Dysregulation of brain and choroid plexus cell types in severe COVID-19

AC Yang, F Kern, PM Losada, MR Agam, CA Maat… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Although SARS-CoV-2 primarily targets the respiratory system, patients with and survivors of
COVID-19 can suffer neurological symptoms 1, 2, 3. However, an unbiased understanding …

A molecular single-cell lung atlas of lethal COVID-19

JC Melms, J Biermann, H Huang, Y Wang, A Nair… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Respiratory failure is the leading cause of death in patients with severe SARS-CoV-2
infection,, but the host response at the lung tissue level is poorly understood. Here we …

Natural killer cells in antiviral immunity

NK Björkström, B Strunz, HG Ljunggren - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells play an important role in innate immune responses to viral infections.
Here, we review recent insights into the role of NK cells in viral infections, with particular …

Dexamethasone modulates immature neutrophils and interferon programming in severe COVID-19

S Sinha, NL Rosin, R Arora, E Labit, A Jaffer, L Cao… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Although critical for host defense, innate immune cells are also pathologic drivers of acute
respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Innate immune dynamics during Coronavirus …

Immunology of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children

J Chou, PG Thomas, AG Randolph - Nature immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Children and adolescents exhibit a broad range of clinical outcomes from SARS-CoV-2
infection, with the majority having minimal to mild symptoms. Additionally, some succumb to …

Type I interferon autoantibodies are associated with systemic immune alterations in patients with COVID-19

MGP van der Wijst, SE Vazquez… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Neutralizing autoantibodies against type I interferons (IFNs) have been found in some
patients with critical coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the disease caused by severe …

[HTML][HTML] Early IFN-α signatures and persistent dysfunction are distinguishing features of NK cells in severe COVID-19

B Krämer, R Knoll, L Bonaguro, M ToVinh, J Raabe… - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
Longitudinal analyses of the innate immune system, including the earliest time points, are
essential to understand the immunopathogenesis and clinical course of coronavirus disease …

[HTML][HTML] Immune-based prediction of COVID-19 severity and chronicity decoded using machine learning

BK Patterson, J Guevara-Coto, R Yogendra… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Expression of CCR5 and its cognate ligands have been implicated in COVID-19
pathogenesis, consequently therapeutics directed against CCR5 are being investigated …