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Colchicine—The Divine Medicine against COVID-19
2024-06-12
Abstract excerpt
Colchicine has a number of effects that suggest it may be useful in the treatment of COVID-19. Myeloid cells are a major source of dysregulated inflammation in COVID-19. The hyperactivation of the NLRP3 inflammasome and the subsequent cytokine storm take place precisely inside them and can lead to multiorgan damage and death. NLRP3 inflammasome inhibition has been assessed at micromolar colchicine concentrations w...
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- Literature Corpus work
- dbb29a89-f381-5fdf-b8bc-dcf181c5400f
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202406.0822.v1
