Cytokine storm, with its overwhelming release of pro-inflammatory cytokines, is often the immediate cause of organ damage and ultimate death in patients. Both infectious and non-infectious etiologies ...
A new analysis from the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI) and University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, showed that only certain influenza A virus (IAV) strains trigger life-threatening ...
As part of the COVID-19 International Research Team, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Pittsburgh and Weill Cornell Medicine ...
To what extent do severe viral infections, e.g., influenza, result in a catabolic state such that cytokines like tumor necrosis factor, interleukin (IL)-2, and IL-6 cause bone marrow suppression, ...
Cytokine storms represent an extreme dysregulation of the host immune response to viral pathogens, characterised by the rapid and excessive release of pro-inflammatory mediators. Triggered by high ...
As part of the COVID-19 International Research Team, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Pittsburgh and Weill Cornell Medicine ...
Sepsis is a fatal syndrome characterized by life-threatening organ dysfunction originating from a chaotic and unchecked innate immune response to infection. Notably, macrophages are the master ...
Winn Chatham, MD (Professor, Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology) and pediatrics colleague Dr. Randy Cron are testing a treatment to halt the potentially fatal immune over-reaction known as cytokine ...
Terracotta funerary plaque, ca. 520-510 BC. Athenian. As deaths from COVID-19 continue to climb worldwide, many mourn loved ones to whom they were not able to say goodbye and because of social ...