COVID-19 disease, caused by infection with SARS-CoV-2, is related to a series of
physiopathological mechanisms that mobilize a wide variety of biomolecules, mainly …

Studies have shown that SARS-CoV-2 has the ability to activate and mature proinflammatory
cytokines in the body. Cytokine markers are a group of polypeptide signalling molecules that …

▪ Abstract Natural killer (NK) cells are populations of lymphocytes that can be activated to
mediate significant levels of cytotoxic activity and produce high levels of certain cytokines …

Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) infects the majority of the world's population. These
infections are often asymptomatic, but ocular HSV-1 infections cause multiple pathologies …

Cytokines orchestrate the complex netuwrk of cellular interactions that regulate effector cell
functions of natural and immune resistance. Although T cells, natural killer (NK) cells and …

Publisher Summary This chapter summarizes the recent knowledge on the production of
cytokines by neutrophils in vitro and in vivo—particularly molecular regulation and other …

Publisher Summary Although interleukin-12 (IL-12) has been discovered only relatively
recently, a remarkable level of knowledge has been obtained for this cytokine, and many …

Autoimmune diseases remain one of the mysteries that perplex immunologists. What makes
the immune system, which has evolved to protect an organism from foreign invaders, turn on …

Although the role of natural killer (NK) cells in defense against certain viral infections has
been appreciated for a number of years, characterization of the virus-induced endogenous …

The clinical manifestations of herpes simplex virus infection generally involve a mild and
localized primary infection followed by asymptomatic (latent) infection interrupted …