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ArticleAdvanced biomedical research2023

Differentially Expressed Inflammatory Cell Death-Related Genes and the Serum Levels of IL-6 are Determinants for Severity of Coronaviruses Diseases-2019 (COVID-19).

Mohammad Heidarvand, Reza Hosseini, Mohammad Kazemi, Alireza Andalib, Ramin Sami, Nahid Eskandari, Behrooz Ghezelbash

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Article in Advanced biomedical research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Mohammad HeidarvandDepartment of Immunology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Reza HosseiniDepartment of Immunology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Mohammad KazemiDepartment of Genetics, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Alireza AndalibDepartment of Immunology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Ramin SamiDepartment of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Khorshid Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Nahid EskandariDepartment of Immunology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Behrooz GhezelbashDepartment of Immunology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences · IR

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Abstract

Background: Inflammatory cell death, PANoptosis, has been suggested to orchestrate the lymphocyte decrement among coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) patients. The main aim of this study was to examine the differences in the expression of key genes related to inflammatory cell death and their correlation with lymphopenia in the mild and severe types of COVID-19 patients. Materials and Methods: Eighty-eight patients (36 to 60 years old) with mild ( Results: A major increase in the expression of FADD, ASC, and MLKL-related genes in the severe type of patients was compared to the mild type of patients. The serum levels of IL-6 similarly indicated a significant increase in the severe type of the patients. A significant negative correlation was detected between the three genes' expression and the levels of IL-6 with the lymphocyte counts in both types of COVID-19 patients. Conclusion: Overall, the main regulated cell-death pathways are likely to be involved in lymphopenia in COVID-19 patients, and the expression levels of these genes could potentially predict the patients' outcome.

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Apoptosiscoronavirus disease-19interleukin-6lymphopenianecroptosispyroptosis

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