Potential role of IFN-α in COVID-19 patients and its underlying treatment options

L Yang, J Wang, P Hui, TO Yarovinsky, S Badeti… - Applied Microbiology …, 2021 - Springer
… Accordingly, we may presume that the disease severity of COVID-19 may be related to various
IFN-α subtype induction. It has been reported that IFN-α subtypes were differently induced …

Interfering with interferons: A critical mechanism for critical COVID-19 pneumonia

HC Su, H Jing, Y Zhang… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
… insufficient type I interferon immunity is a key driver of critical COVID-19 pneumonia in at
least 15–20% of patients, highlighting the importance of type I interferon immunity for potential …

Interferonalpha position in combating with COVID19: A systematic review

A Nakhlband, A Fakhari, H Azizi - Journal of medical virology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… 23±10.5 days) in the combination group with IFN α-2b was shorter than control group (standard).
Moreover, in the all included studies the average days of hospitalization was found …

Subcutaneous injection of IFN alpha-2b for COVID-19: an observational study

B Wang, D Li, T Liu, H Wang, F Luo, Y Liu - BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020 - Springer
… The global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection is … of interferon
alpha-2b (IFN alpha-2b) combined with lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) in the treatment of COVID-19

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

…, AC Aschenbrenner, R Bals, A Bartholomäus, A Becker… - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
… of fibrotic lung disease in severe COVID-19, as NK cells exhibited impaired … IFN-α and TNF
responses in severe and moderate COVID-19, respectively, and associates a prolonged IFN-α

[PDF][PDF] Type I IFN immunoprofiling in COVID-19 patients

S Trouillet-Assant, S Viel, A Gaymard, S Pons… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
… Type I interferons (IFN-I) are major components of the innate … To date, IFN-I response has
not been evaluated in COVID-19 … the kinetics of plasma IFN-I in COVID-19 patients with a …

Clinical, laboratory, and interferon-alpha response characteristics of patients with chilblain-like lesions during the COVID-19 pandemic

…, V Fassbender, A Palladini… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
… We observed a significantly higher IFN-α response in the patients with chilblains compared
with those with moderate or severe COVID-19. The production of IFN-α is higher in infancy …

Anti‐IFNα/‐ω neutralizing antibodies from COVID19 patients correlate with downregulation of IFN response and laboratory biomarkers of disease severity

…, A Criniti, A Pierangeli, A Angeloni… - European journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… -IFN-β NAB also had anti-IFN-α NAB. Our findings that anti-IFN-β NAB are rarely detected in
COVID-19 … 2 out of 19 COVID-19 patients with anti-IFN-α auto-Abs had anti-IFN-β antibodies […

Efficacy of interferon alpha for the treatment of hospitalized patients with COVID-19: A meta-analysis

…, N Kobyliak, V Oksenych, A Kamyshnyi - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
… for Covid-19, and there is not enough data on the potential of IFN -α against Covid-19, this
… the effects of IFN-α treatment in moderate to severe COVID-19 cases concerning mortality, …

Higher COVID-19 pneumonia risk associated with anti-IFN-α than with anti-IFN-ω auto-Abs in children

…, V Béziat, SY Zhang, A Borghesi, A Pession… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - rupress.org
We found that 19 (10.4%) of 183 unvaccinated children hospitalized for COVID-19 pneumonia
had autoantibodies (auto-Abs) neutralizing type I IFNs (IFN-α2 in 10 patients: IFN-α2 only …