Immune Responses in Coronavirus Disease
A special issue of COVID (ISSN 2673-8112).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 12382
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Pathology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
Interests: biomarker discovery; inflammation; immunotherapeutics; IgE/IgG antibody regulation; ADCC
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
COVID-19 has both devastated and revolutionized the way we address pandemic-based health and disease. We have matured from nucleic-acid-based testing, social distancing, personal protective equipment, and stay-at-home mandates to immunization, treatment modalities with side-effect profiling, rapid antigen testing, variation/mutation in COVID-19 infection as well as severity of symptom presentation. While it appears that the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic may be behind us, the question of the state of our functional immune status post-natural infection and/or vaccination remains an area of importance. Initial assessment of anti-COVID-19 immunity status gave rise to various treatment modalities, including COVID-19 Convelescent Plasma, hyper-COVID-19 immunoglobulin preparations, select cellular therapies, and immunization regiments to name a few. What about going forward? How do we know if we have a modicum of functional immunity to combat the current or potential new versions of COVID-19? This includes general anti-COVID-19 immunoglobulin presence, neutralizing antibodies, cellular-based responses and the like. This Special Issue on "Immune Responses in Coronavirus Disease" seeks to explore this important question in greater detail. The relationships of immunoglobulin isotypes and subclasses, dendridic cell activation, and everything in between that can induce functional protective immunity by way of opsonization, neutralization, eradication, as well as minimization of previous, current, and potentially future COVID-19 insults remains the subject matter of this Special Issue. COVID is likely here to stay. Understanding how we immunologically relate to the vestiges of this pandemic will help us navigate how we will interact with it in the days to come.
Prof. Dr. Martin H. Bluth
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- COVID-19
- Coronavirus
- immune response
- neutralizing antibody
- convelescent plasma
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