Therapeutic strategies for COVID-19: progress and lessons learned

G Li, R Hilgenfeld, R Whitley, E De Clercq - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has stimulated tremendous
efforts to develop therapeutic strategies that target severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Beyond neutralization: Fc-dependent antibody effector functions in SARS-CoV-2 infection

A Zhang, HD Stacey, MR D'Agostino, Y Tugg… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Neutralizing antibodies are known to have a crucial role in protecting against SARS-CoV-2
infection and have been suggested to be a useful correlate of protection for vaccine clinical …

Current and novel biomarkers of thrombotic risk in COVID-19: a consensus statement from the international COVID-19 thrombosis biomarkers colloquium

DA Gorog, RF Storey, PA Gurbel, US Tantry… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) predisposes patients to thrombotic and
thromboembolic events, owing to excessive inflammation, endothelial cell activation and …

COVID-19, myocarditis and pericarditis

DL Fairweather, DJ Beetler, DN Di Florio… - Circulation …, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Viral infections are a leading cause of myocarditis and pericarditis worldwide, conditions that
frequently coexist. Myocarditis and pericarditis were some of the early comorbidities …

The state of complement in COVID-19

B Afzali, M Noris, BN Lambrecht… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Hyperactivation of the complement and coagulation systems is recognized as part of the
clinical syndrome of COVID-19. Here we review systemic complement activation and local …

The COVID-19 puzzle: deciphering pathophysiology and phenotypes of a new disease entity

MF Osuchowski, MS Winkler, T Skirecki… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
The zoonotic SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide, with
devastating consequences. While the medical community has gained insight into the …

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 …

Genetic mechanisms of critical illness in COVID-19

E Pairo-Castineira, S Clohisey, L Klaric, AD Bretherick… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Host-mediated lung inflammation is present, and drives mortality, in the critical illness
caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Host genetic variants associated with …

Autocrine vitamin D signaling switches off pro-inflammatory programs of TH1 cells

D Chauss, T Freiwald, R McGregor, B Yan, L Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The molecular mechanisms governing orderly shutdown and retraction of CD4+ type 1
helper T (TH1) cell responses remain poorly understood. Here we show that complement …

Neutrophils in COVID-19

N Reusch, E De Domenico, L Bonaguro… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Strong evidence has been accumulated since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that
neutrophils play an important role in the pathophysiology, particularly in those with severe …