The COVID-19 pandemic: a global health crisis

CA Pollard, MP Morran… - Physiological …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was identified as the causative agent for a series of
atypical respiratory diseases in the Hubei Province of Wuhan, China in December of 2019 …

[HTML][HTML] The COVID-19 cytokine storm; what we know so far

D Ragab, H Salah Eldin, M Taeimah… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
COVID-19 is a rapidly spreading global threat that has been declared as a pandemic by the
WHO. COVID-19 is transmitted via droplets or direct contact and infects the respiratory tract …

One year update on the COVID-19 pandemic: Where are we now?

SK Mishra, T Tripathi - Acta tropica, 2021 - Elsevier
We are living through an unprecedented crisis with the rapid spread of the new coronavirus
disease (COVID-19) worldwide within a short time. The timely availability of thousands of …

Confronting the controversy: interleukin-6 and the COVID-19 cytokine storm syndrome

LYC Chen, RL Hoiland, S Stukas… - European …, 2020 - Eur Respiratory Soc
The concept of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related cytokine storm syndrome
(COVID-CSS) emerged early in the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS …

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis: a review inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic

M Soy, P Atagündüz, I Atagündüz, GT Sucak - Rheumatology international, 2021 - Springer
Hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS) or hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is an acute
and rapidly progressive systemic inflammatory disorder characterized by cytopenia …

COVID-19 and hypertension: the what, the why, and the how

SA Muhamad, A Ugusman, J Kumar, D Skiba… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
It has been a year since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared pandemic
and wreak havoc worldwide. Despite meticulous research has been done in this period …

Circulating levels of interleukin-6 and interleukin-10, but not tumor necrosis factor-alpha, as potential biomarkers of severity and mortality for COVID-19: systematic …

W Udomsinprasert, J Jittikoon… - Journal of clinical …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose Cytokine storm, an uncontrolled overproduction of inflammatory cytokines
contributing to an aberrant systemic inflammatory response, is a major pathological feature …

Interleukin-6 perpetrator of the COVID-19 cytokine storm

J Shekhawat, K Gauba, S Gupta, P Purohit… - Indian Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - Springer
COVID-19 has emerged as a global pandemic. It is mainly manifested as pneumonia which
may deteriorate into severe respiratory failure. The major hallmark of the disease is the …

Is Toll-like receptor 4 involved in the severity of COVID-19 pathology in patients with cardiometabolic comorbidities?

SCS Brandao, JOX Ramos, LT Dompieri… - Cytokine & Growth …, 2021 - Elsevier
The severe form of COVID-19 is marked by an abnormal and exacerbated immunological
host response favoring to a poor outcome in a significant number of patients, especially …

The effect of neutropenia and filgrastim (G-CSF) on cancer patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection

AW Zhang, S Morjaria, A Kaltsas… - Clinical Infectious …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Neutropenia is commonly encountered in cancer patients. Recombinant human
granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF, filgrastim), a cytokine that initiates proliferation …