Practical aspects of targeting IL-6 in COVID-19 disease.

C Calabrese, P Rajendram, GL Sacha… - … Clinic Journal of …, 2020 - europepmc.org
Interleukin 6 (IL-6) took center stage as a therapeutic target, given its role in the cytokine
storm phase of COVID-19. While IL-6 inhibitors have been widely used to treat a variety of …

Cytokines and COVID-19: friends or foes?

M Rokni, MR Hamblin, N Rezaei - Human vaccines & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The cytokine storm following sepsis has been proven to be an important mechanism for
triggering acute respiratory distress syndrome, which is a fatal uncontrolled systemic …

A deep look into COVID-19 severity through dynamic changes in blood cytokine levels

DA Kleymenov, EN Bykonia, LI Popova… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
An excessive inflammatory response to SARS-CoV-2 is thought to be a major cause of
disease severity and mortality in patients with COVID-19. Longitudinal analysis of cytokine …

[PDF][PDF] An update on cytokine storm in covid-19 infection: Pivotal to the survival of the patients

EI Obeagu, S Hamisi, UO Bunu - Int. J. Adv. Res. Biol. Sci, 2023 - researchgate.net
The immune system protects the host organism from exogenous and endogenouspathogens
. A finely tuned and balanced array of cytokines, coagulation factors, andcomplement …

Off-label therapy targeting pathogenic inflammation in COVID-19

L Romani, C Tomino, P Puccetti, E Garaci - Cell death discovery, 2020 - nature.com
The world is facing a pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) for which no proven specific therapies are available other than supportive ones …

Comparative efficacy and safety of pharmacological interventions for the treatment of COVID-19: A systematic review and network meta-analysis

MS Kim, MH An, WJ Kim, TH Hwang - PLoS medicine, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Numerous clinical trials and observational studies have investigated various
pharmacological agents as potential treatment for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

Cytokines and their relationship with the severity and prognosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a retrospective cohort study

QQ Liu, A Cheng, Y Wang, H Li, L Hu, X Zhao… - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To delineate the characteristics and clinical significance of plasma inflammatory
cytokines altered in COVID-19. Design Retrospective, single-centre cohort study. Setting …

Cytokine profiles before and after immune modulation in hospitalized patients with COVID-19

V Azmy, K Kaman, D Tang, H Zhao… - Journal of clinical …, 2021 - Springer
We describe the cytokine profiles of a large cohort of hospitalized patients with moderate to
critical COVID-19, focusing on IL-6, sIL2R, and IL-10 levels before and after receiving …

Consideration of severe coronavirus disease 2019 as viral sepsis and potential use of immune checkpoint inhibitors

Z Odabasi, I Cinel - Critical care explorations, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Taking into consideration the multisystemic clinical and autopsy findings in “severe”
coronavirus disease 2019 patients, viral sepsis would be a more accurate term to describe …

Harnessing the immune system to overcome cytokine storm and reduce viral load in COVID-19: a review of the phases of illness and therapeutic agents

S Khadke, N Ahmed, N Ahmed, R Ratts, S Raju… - Virology journal, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2, previously named 2019-nCov), a novel …