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 …

Overview of immunological & virological factors driving the evolution & global spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants

R Ramasamy - Indian Journal of Medical Research, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Abstract The SARS-CoV-2, a highly infectious positive strand RNA virus first identified in
December 2019, has produced multiple genetic variants that have rapidly and sequentially …

Pharmacological potential of Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal and Tinospora cordifolia (Willd.) Miers on the experimental models of COVID-19, T cell differentiation …

ZA Rizvi, P Babele, U Madan, S Sadhu… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Cytokine release syndrome (CRS) due to severe acute respiratory coronavirus-2 (SARS-
CoV-2) infection leads to life-threatening pneumonia which has been associated with …

Omicron sub-lineage BA. 5 infection results in attenuated pathology in hACE2 transgenic mice

ZA Rizvi, J Dandotiya, S Sadhu, R Khatri… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
A recently emerged sub-lineage of Omicron, BA. 5, together with BA. 4, caused a fifth wave
of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in South Africa and subsequently emerged as a …

Evaluation of ayush-64 (a polyherbal formulation) and its ingredients in the Syrian hamster model for SARS-CoV-2 infection reveals the preventative potential of …

ZA Rizvi, U Madan, MR Tripathy, S Goswami, S Mani… - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the current study, we evaluated the efficacy of Ayush-64 (A64), a polyherbal formulation
containing Alstonia scholaris (L.) R. Br.(A. scholaris), Caesalpinia crista L.(C. crista) …

Clinical and experimental evidence suggest omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 is inherently less pathogenic than delta variant independent of previous immunity

R Thiruvengadam, ZA Rizvi, S Raghavan… - European journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Objectives To study clinical disease outcomes in both human and animal models to
understand the pathogenicity of omicron compared to the delta variant. Methods In this cross …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the potential of broadly neutralizing antibodies for treating SARS-CoV-2 variants of global concern in 2023: a comprehensive clinical review

SD Gutlapalli, VDP Ganipineni, S Danda, D Fabian… - Cureus, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In the aftermath of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the world is still
seeing outbreaks of COVID-19 infections as of 2023, especially in populations that have …

Optimized high-yield expression of envelope glycoprotein domain III from dengue virus serotypes 1 to 4

D Mallick, V Tyagi, A Saroj, M Bhutkar, V Kumar, M Das… - Biochimie, 2024 - Elsevier
Dengue virus (DENV) envelope glycoprotein Domain III (EDIII) is critical for viral entry, highly
immunogenic, and induces robust neutralizing antibody response. It is a prominent …

SARS‐CoV‐2 infection induces thymic atrophy mediated by IFN‐γ in hACE2 transgenic mice

ZA Rizvi, S Sadhu, J Dandotiya… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Pathogenic infections cause thymic atrophy, perturb thymic T‐cell development, and alter
immunological response. Previous studies reported dysregulated T‐cell function and …