Plasma biomarkers for systemic inflammation in COVID-19 survivors

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BACKGROUND: While the majority of COVID-19 patients fully recover from the infection and become asymptomatic, a significant proportion of COVID-19 survivors experience a broad spectrum of symptoms lasting weeks to months post-infection, a phenomenon termed "post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC)." The aim of this study is to determine whether inflammatory proteins are dysregulated and can serve as potential biomarkers for systemic inflammation in COVID-19 survivors.

METHODS: We determined the levels of inflammatory proteins in plasma from 22 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) long haulers (COV-LH), 22 COVID-19 asymptomatic survivors (COV-AS), and 22 healthy subjects (HS) using an Olink proteomics assay and assessed the results by a beads-based multiplex immunoassay.

RESULTS: Compared to HS, we found that COVID-19 survivors still exhibited systemic inflammation, as evidenced by significant changes in the levels of multiple inflammatory proteins in plasma from both COV-LH and COV-AS. CXCL10 was the only protein that significantly upregulated in COV-LH compared with COV-AS and HS.

CONCLUSIONS: Our results indicate that several inflammatory proteins remain aberrantly dysregulated in COVID-19 survivors and CXCL10 might serve as a potential biomarker to typify COV-LH. Further characterization of these signature inflammatory molecules might improve the understanding of the long-term impacts of COVID-19 and provide new targets for the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 survivors with PASC.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

Proteomics. Clinical applications - 16(2022), 5 vom: 11. Sept., Seite e2200031

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhao, Juan [VerfasserIn]
Schank, Madison [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Ling [VerfasserIn]
Dang, Xindi [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Dechao [VerfasserIn]
Khanal, Sushant [VerfasserIn]
Nguyen, Lam N T [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yi [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Xiao Y [VerfasserIn]
Adkins, James L [VerfasserIn]
Pelton, Benjamin J [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jinyu [VerfasserIn]
Ning, Shunbin [VerfasserIn]
Gazzar, Mohamed El [VerfasserIn]
Moorman, Jonathan P [VerfasserIn]
Yao, Zhi Q [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biomarkers
COVID-19
Inflammation
Journal Article
Long haulers
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
SARS-CoV-2

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Date Completed 22.09.2022

Date Revised 14.03.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/prca.202200031

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM34449313X