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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2022

Immune Cells Profiles in the Different Sites of COVID-19-Affected Lung Lobes in a Single Patient.

Sadahiro Iwabuchi, Kyohei Miyamoto, Mayuko Hatai, Yurina Mikasa, Masahiro Katsuda, Shin-Ichi Murata, Toshikazu Kondo, Hiroki Yamaue, Shinichi Hashimoto

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sadahiro IwabuchiDepartment of Molecular Pathophysiology, Institute of Advanced Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Kyohei MiyamotoDepartment of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Mayuko HataiDepartment of Molecular Pathophysiology, Institute of Advanced Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Yurina MikasaDepartments of Human Pathology, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Masahiro KatsudaSecond Department of Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Shin-Ichi MurataDepartments of Human Pathology, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Toshikazu KondoDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Hiroki YamaueSecond Department of Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Shinichi HashimotoDepartment of Molecular Pathophysiology, Institute of Advanced Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Wakayama Medical University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Whereas the COVID-19 disease pathophysiology is under investigation, it is important to identify the pathways of viral transmission and inflammation from the pre-illness to the disease-onset stages. We analyzed five lung lobes from a patient with COVID-19 who finally died after prolonged lung protective ventilation. Pathological examination revealed moderate inflammation in upper lung lobes and uneven yet severe inflammation and diffuse alveolar damage in lower lung lobes. SARS-CoV-2 was detected at higher levels not in severely, but rather moderately inflamed middle lung lobes, and immunohistochemistry and bulk RNA-sequencing results showed that immune cells were detected at higher levels in lower lung lobes. The mRNA expression of cytokine families varied. We found an increase in keratin 5- or aquaporin 3-expressing basal cells in the severely inflamed lower lung lobes, and the alveolar stromal tissues were filled with them. Thus, this analysis of lung samples from a patient helps to determine the COVID-19 pathophysiology at a specific time point, and the virus localization and inflammatory responses at each site of the lungs provide various important indications.

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