[HTML][HTML] Risk and protective factors for COVID-19 morbidity, severity, and mortality

J Zhang, X Dong, G Liu, Y Gao - Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology, 2023 - Springer
The outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the novel severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has become an evolving global …

Deciphering the COVID‐19 cytokine storm: systematic review and meta‐analysis

R Mulchandani, T Lyngdoh… - European journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction The coronavirus pandemic has affected more than 20 million people so far.
Elevated cytokines and suppressed immune responses have been hypothesized to set off a …

The multifaceted immunology of cytokine storm syndrome

PY Lee, RQ Cron - The Journal of Immunology, 2023 - journals.aai.org
Cytokine storm syndromes (CSSs) are potentially fatal hyperinflammatory states that share
the underpinnings of persistent immune cell activation and uninhibited cytokine production …

Familial hypercholesterolaemia and COVID-19: a two-hit scenario for endothelial dysfunction amenable to treatment

A Vuorio, F Raal, M Kaste, PT Kovanen - Atherosclerosis, 2021 - Elsevier
Patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) are likely at increased risk for COVID-19
complications in the acute phase of the infection, and for a long time thereafter. Because in …

[HTML][HTML] Statins as adjuvant therapy for COVID-19 to calm the stormy immunothrombosis and beyond

A Vuorio, PT Kovanen - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cytokine storm is a severe immune response that can be triggered by the coronavirus SARS-
CoV-2 infection in susceptible patients, and, in the severe form of the COVID-19 disease, it is …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 ORF8 as a modulator of cytokine induction: evidence and search for molecular mechanisms

MI Móvio, GWC Almeida, IGL Martines… - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
Severe cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection are characterized by an immune response that leads
to the overproduction of pro-inflammatory cytokines, resulting in lung damage …

The role of the allergist/immunologist in the COVID-19 pandemic: a Janus-faced presentation

JA Bellanti - Allergy and Asthma Proceedings, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Following its initial description in December 2019 in Wuhan, China,
coronavirus-2 (COVID‐19) has rapidly progressed into a worldwide pandemic, affecting …

[HTML][HTML] COVID–19 and progesterone: part 2. unraveling high severity, immunity patterns, immunity grading, progesterone and its potential clinical use

SB Shah - Endocrine and metabolic science, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Severely ill COVID–19 (Corona Virus Disease of 2019) patients have a
hyperinflammatory condition with a high concentration of pro-inflammatory cytokines termed …

[HTML][HTML] Drug repositioning by merging active subnetworks validated in cancer and COVID-19

M Lucchetta, M Pellegrini - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Computational drug repositioning aims at ranking and selecting existing drugs for novel
diseases or novel use in old diseases. In silico drug screening has the potential for speeding …

Phenylmethimazole is a candidate drug for the treatment of severe forms of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as well as other virus-induced “cytokines storm”

C Giuliani, I Bucci, G Napolitano - Medical Hypotheses, 2021 - Elsevier
Severe forms of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are characterized by an
enhanced inflammatory syndrome called “cytokine storm” that produces an aberrant release …