The immune system and COVID-19: Friend or foe?

F Yazdanpanah, MR Hamblin, N Rezaei - Life sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Aim Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel highly contagious infection
caused by SARS-CoV-2, which has been became a global public health challenge. The …

Immunological imprint of COVID‐19 on human peripheral blood leukocyte populations

B Kratzer, D Trapin, P Ettel, U Körmöczi, A Rottal… - Allergy, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background SARS‐CoV‐2 has triggered a pandemic that is now claiming many lives.
Several studies have investigated cellular immune responses in COVID‐19‐infected …

[HTML][HTML] Could SARS-CoV-2-induced hyperinflammation magnify the severity of coronavirus disease (CoViD-19) leading to acute respiratory distress syndrome?

ASS Girija, EM Shankar, M Larsson - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The exaggerated immune response induced in the lower respiratory tract against
coronaviruses (CoVs), including CoViD-19 (2019-nCoV), appears to contribute to the …

Innate and adaptive immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 in humans: relevance to acquired immunity and vaccine responses

SC Jordan - Clinical & Experimental Immunology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The factors responsible for the spectrum of coronavirus 19 (COVID-19) disease severity and
the genesis and nature of protective immunity against COVID-19 remain elusive. Multiple …

Why do some people develop serious COVID-19 disease after infection, while others only exhibit mild symptoms?

M Ballow, CL Haga - The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In …, 2021 - Elsevier
The year 2020 was a landmark year of a once-in-a-century pandemic of a novel coronavirus,
SARS-CoV-2 virus, that led to a rapidly spreading coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The …

The known unknowns of T cell immunity to COVID-19

AC Karlsson, M Humbert, M Buggert - Science Immunology, 2020 - science.org
Tremendous progress has been made in understanding the role of T cell immunity in acute
and convalescent COVID-19 infection. Here, we shed light on the “known unknowns” of …

[PDF][PDF] COVID-19 and the human innate immune system

JL Schultze, AC Aschenbrenner - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
The introduction of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) into the
human population represents a tremendous medical and economic crisis. Innate immunity …

Cell‐mediated and humoral adaptive immune responses to SARS‐CoV‐2 are lower in asymptomatic than symptomatic COVID‐19 patients

A Mazzoni, L Maggi, M Capone… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The characterization of cell‐mediated and humoral adaptive immune responses to SARS‐
CoV‐2 is fundamental to understand COVID‐19 progression and the development of …

[HTML][HTML] Is cross-reactive immunity triggering COVID-19 immunopathogenesis?

A Beretta, M Cranage, D Zipeto - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The serological responses to both SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 virus have some unique
characteristics that suggest cross-reactive priming by other human coronaviruses (hCoVs) …

[HTML][HTML] Immune response in COVID-19: addressing a pharmacological challenge by targeting pathways triggered by SARS-CoV-2

M Catanzaro, F Fagiani, M Racchi, E Corsini… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
To date, no vaccines or effective drugs have been approved to prevent or treat COVID-19
and the current standard care relies on supportive treatments. Therefore, based on the fast …