The state of complement in COVID-19

B Afzali, M Noris, BN Lambrecht… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Hyperactivation of the complement and coagulation systems is recognized as part of the
clinical syndrome of COVID-19. Here we review systemic complement activation and local …

Endothelial dysfunction and immunothrombosis as key pathogenic mechanisms in COVID-19

A Bonaventura, A Vecchié, L Dagna… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a clinical syndrome caused by infection
with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Patients with severe …

Immune response in COVID-19: what is next?

Q Li, Y Wang, Q Sun, J Knopf, M Herrmann… - Cell Death & …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been a global pandemic for more
than 2 years and it still impacts our daily lifestyle and quality in unprecedented ways. A …

Immunity, endothelial injury and complement-induced coagulopathy in COVID-19

L Perico, A Benigni, F Casiraghi, LFP Ng… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
In December 2019, a novel coronavirus was isolated from the respiratory epithelium of
patients with unexplained pneumonia in Wuhan, China. This pathogen, named severe acute …

Patients with COVID-19: in the dark-NETs of neutrophils

M Ackermann, HJ Anders, R Bilyy, GL Bowlin… - Cell Death & …, 2021 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 infection poses a major threat to the lungs and multiple other organs,
occasionally causing death. Until effective vaccines are developed to curb the pandemic, it …

Autocrine vitamin D signaling switches off pro-inflammatory programs of TH1 cells

D Chauss, T Freiwald, R McGregor, B Yan, L Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The molecular mechanisms governing orderly shutdown and retraction of CD4+ type 1
helper T (TH1) cell responses remain poorly understood. Here we show that complement …

Complement and tissue factor–enriched neutrophil extracellular traps are key drivers in COVID-19 immunothrombosis

P Skendros, A Mitsios… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Emerging data indicate that complement and neutrophils contribute to the maladaptive
immune response that fuels hyperinflammation and thrombotic microangiopathy, thereby …

Covid-19 image data collection: Prospective predictions are the future

JP Cohen, P Morrison, L Dao, K Roth… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Across the world's coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) hot spots, the need to streamline
patient diagnosis and management has become more pressing than ever. As one of the …

Systemic complement activation is associated with respiratory failure in COVID-19 hospitalized patients

JC Holter, SE Pischke, E de Boer… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Respiratory failure in the acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
pandemic is hypothesized to be driven by an overreacting innate immune response, where …

COVID-19 cytokine storm: The anger of inflammation

M Mahmudpour, J Roozbeh, M Keshavarz, S Farrokhi… - Cytokine, 2020 - Elsevier
Patients with COVID-19 who require ICU admission might have the cytokine storm. It is a
state of out-of-control release of a variety of inflammatory cytokines. The molecular …