Role of inflammatory cytokines in COVID-19 patients: a review on molecular mechanisms, immune functions, immunopathology and immunomodulatory drugs to …

AA Rabaan, SH Al-Ahmed, J Muhammad, A Khan… - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is a severe pandemic of the current century. The vicious …

Neutralizing antibody therapeutics for COVID-19

AC Hurt, AK Wheatley - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 and subsequent COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a
significant global public health burden, leading to an urgent need for effective therapeutic …

Anti-SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing monoclonal antibodies: clinical pipeline

M Tuccori, S Ferraro, I Convertino, E Cappello… - MAbs, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapy has been previously exploited for viral infections, such
as respiratory syncytial virus pneumonia and Ebolavirus disease. In the ongoing COVID-19 …

[HTML][HTML] Diverse immunological factors influencing pathogenesis in patients with COVID-19: a review on viral dissemination, immunotherapeutic options to counter …

AA Rabaan, SH Al-Ahmed, MA Garout, AM Al-Qaaneh… - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
The pathogenesis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is still not fully unraveled. Though …

Correlation between the binding affinity and the conformational entropy of nanobody SARS-CoV-2 spike protein complexes

H Mikolajek, M Weckener, ZF Brotzakis, J Huo… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - pnas.org
Camelid single-domain antibodies, also known as nanobodies, can be readily isolated from
naïve libraries for specific targets but often bind too weakly to their targets to be immediately …

Nano-engineered tools in the diagnosis, therapeutics, prevention, and mitigation of SARS-CoV-2

S Kamat, M Kumari, C Jayabaskaran - Journal of Controlled Release, 2021 - Elsevier
The recent outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 has forever altered mankind resulting in the COVID-19
pandemic. This respiratory virus further manifests into vital organ damage, resulting in …

SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody responses towards full-length spike protein and the receptor-binding domain

R Bayarri-Olmos, M Idorn, A Rosbjerg… - The Journal of …, 2021 - journals.aai.org
Tools to monitor SARS-CoV-2 transmission and immune responses are needed. We present
a neutralization ELISA to determine the levels of Ab-mediated virus neutralization and a …

Structure-guided mutations in CDRs for enhancing the affinity of neutralizing SARS-CoV-2 nanobody

V Singh, M Bhutkar, S Choudhary, S Nehul… - Biochemical and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The optimization of antibodies to attain the desired levels of affinity and specificity holds
great promise for the development of next generation therapeutics. This study delves into the …

Repurposing chloroquine against multiple diseases with special attention to SARS-CoV-2 and associated toxicity

S Kamat, M Kumari - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Chloroquine and its derivatives have been used since ages to treat malaria and have also
been approved by the FDA to treat autoimmune diseases. The drug employs pH-dependent …

Nanobodies as powerful pulmonary targeted biotherapeutics against SARS-CoV-2, pharmaceutical point of view

A Najmeddin, MB Shapourabadi, M Behdani… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Since December 2019, the newly emerged SARS-CoV-2 virus
continues to infect humans and many people died from severe Covid-19 during the last 2 …