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COVID-19 stokes inflammasomes

The poor success rate of treating patients with aggressive sepsis in SARS-CoV-2 infections has highlighted again the challenges of managing systemic inflammatory conditions. In this issue of JEM, Rodrigues et al. (https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20201707) discuss the role of inflammasome activation in C...

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Autor principal: Bryant, Clare
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Rockefeller University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7731946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33289787
http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.20202413
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Sumario:The poor success rate of treating patients with aggressive sepsis in SARS-CoV-2 infections has highlighted again the challenges of managing systemic inflammatory conditions. In this issue of JEM, Rodrigues et al. (https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20201707) discuss the role of inflammasome activation in COVID-19 disease severity, opening new possibilities for therapeutic management of sepsis syndromes.