Article
Tocilizumab treatment leads to early resolution of lymphopenia and myeloid dysregulation in patients hospitalized with COVID-19
2022-10-28
Abstract excerpt
High interleukin (IL)-6 levels are associated with more severe clinical manifestations in patients hospitalized with COVID-19, but the complex role of IL-6 in antiviral and inflammatory processes has made it difficult to decipher its involvement in the disease. IL-6 receptor blockade by tocilizumab (anti-IL6R; Actemra) is used globally for the treatment of severe COVID-19, yet a molecular understanding of the ther...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b8f6f660-c329-5c58-8e7c-d69cb2a8a30c
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.10.27.514096
