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ReviewNature reviews. Neurology2020

Lung innervation in the eye of a cytokine storm: neuroimmune interactions and COVID-19.

Francesco De Virgiliis, Simone Di Giovanni

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Review in Nature reviews. Neurology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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58citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

58 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 102 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. [Pulmonary innate immune response in Sars-cov-2 infection]Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Medicas (Cordoba, Argentina) · 2022
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  2. Inter-Organ Communication in Pulmonary Fibrosis: Systemic Modifiers of a Lung-Centered Disease.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026
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  5. Neuroplasticity and neuroimmune interactions with type 2 inflammation in asthma.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2026
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  13. Circulating free heme induces cytokine storm and pulmonary hypertension through the MKK3/p38 axis.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Francesco De VirgiliisDepartment of Brain Sciences, Division of Neuroscience, Imperial College London, London, UK. francesco.de-virgiliis14@imperial.ac.uk.
Simone Di GiovanniDepartment of Brain Sciences, Division of Neuroscience, Imperial College London, London, UK. s.di-giovanni@imperial.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3154-5399
Imperial College London · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which was first reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and has caused a global pandemic. Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a common feature of severe forms of COVID-19 and can lead to respiratory failure, especially in older individuals. The increasing recognition of the neurotropic potential of SARS-CoV-2 has sparked interest in the role of the nervous system in respiratory failure in people with COVID-19. However, the neuroimmune interactions in the lung in the context of ARDS are poorly understood. In this Perspectives article, we propose the concept of the neuroimmune unit as a critical determinant of lung function in the context of COVID-19, inflammatory conditions and ageing, focusing particularly on the involvement of the vagus nerve. We discuss approaches such as neurostimulation and pharmacological neuromodulation to reduce tissue inflammation with the aim of preventing respiratory failure.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Cytokine Release SyndromeHumansLungNeuroimmunomodulationPandemicsPneumonia, ViralRespiratory InsufficiencySARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32843733
PMCPMC7446605
OpenAlexW3081461221

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