[HTML][HTML] Innate immunity: the first line of defense against SARS-CoV-2

MS Diamond, TD Kanneganti - Nature immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV)-2, continues to cause substantial morbidity …

[HTML][HTML] Inflammasome activation at the crux of severe COVID-19

SM Vora, J Lieberman, H Wu - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2021 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), results in life-threatening disease in a minority of patients, especially elderly …

[HTML][HTML] FcγR-mediated SARS-CoV-2 infection of monocytes activates inflammation

C Junqueira, Â Crespo, S Ranjbar, LB De Lacerda… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 can cause acute respiratory distress and death in some patients. Although
severe COVID-19 is linked to substantial inflammation, how SARS-CoV-2 triggers …

[HTML][HTML] Tracking SARS-CoV-2 Omicron diverse spike gene mutations identifies multiple inter-variant recombination events

J Ou, W Lan, X Wu, T Zhao, B Duan, P Yang… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2022 - nature.com
The current pandemic of COVID-19 is fueled by more infectious emergent Omicron variants.
Ongoing concerns of emergent variants include possible recombinants, as genome …

[HTML][HTML] Inflammasome activation in infected macrophages drives COVID-19 pathology

E Sefik, R Qu, C Junqueira, E Kaffe, H Mirza, J Zhao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Severe COVID-19 is characterized by persistent lung inflammation, inflammatory cytokine
production, viral RNA and a sustained interferon (IFN) response, all of which are …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2-specific immune response and the pathogenesis of COVID-19

E Gusev, A Sarapultsev, L Solomatina… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The review aims to consolidate research findings on the molecular mechanisms and
virulence and pathogenicity characteristics of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) causative …

[HTML][HTML] The development of COVID-19 treatment

Y Yuan, B Jiao, L Qu, D Yang, R Liu - Frontiers in immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) caused
a pandemic named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that has become the greatest …

Innate immunological pathways in COVID-19 pathogenesis

SR Paludan, TH Mogensen - Science immunology, 2022 - science.org
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a disease characterized by a profound
dysregulation of the innate immune system. This knowledge has emerged from the large …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 drives NLRP3 inflammasome activation in human microglia through spike protein

EA Albornoz, AA Amarilla, N Modhiran, S Parker… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is primarily a respiratory disease, however,
an increasing number of reports indicate that SARS-CoV-2 infection can also cause severe …

Sensing of SARS-CoV-2 by pDCs and their subsequent production of IFN-I contribute to macrophage-induced cytokine storm during COVID-19

P Laurent, C Yang, AF Rendeiro… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Lung-infiltrating macrophages create a marked inflammatory milieu in a subset of patients
with COVID-19 by producing a cytokine storm, which correlates with increased lethality …