Potential Benefits of Tryptophan Metabolism to the Efficacy of Tocilizumab in COVID-19

Copyright © 2020 Belladonna and Orabona..

Tocilizumab has been proposed as a means of opposing hyperinflammatory responses in intensive care patients with COVID-19. Here, we briefly discuss the potentially multiple, synergistic mechanisms whereby tocilizumab might exert therapeutic activity, mostly focusing on the production of tryptophan-derived catabolites that would result from blockade of IL-6 signaling, as contextualized to the cytokine storm occurring in COVID-19 patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in pharmacology - 11(2020) vom: 28., Seite 959

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Belladonna, Maria Laura [VerfasserIn]
Orabona, Ciriana [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Cytokine storm syndrome
IDO1
Journal Article
Review
Tocilizumab
Tryptophan catabolism

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 28.09.2020

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fphar.2020.00959

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM312141211