ReviewInternational immunopharmacology2021
Cytokine storm in the pathophysiology of COVID-19: Possible functional disturbances of miRNAs.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prevalence and clinical implications of abnormal body composition phenotypes in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- Integrated miR-omics and proteomics reveal the regulatory role of miR in protein networks associated with COVID-19 disease progression.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- In Silico Analysis of MiRNA Regulatory Networks to Identify Potential Biomarkers for the Clinical Course of Viral Infections.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Characteristics and Outcomes of New-Onset Cardiomyopathy in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Research progress of cPLA2 in cardiovascular diseases (Review).Molecular medicine reports · 2025Review
- The short-term follow-up of patients with diabetes mellitus presenting with COVID-19.Journal of medicine and life · 2025Article
- State of Knowledge About Thyroid Cancers in the Era of COVID-19-A Narrative Review.Biomedicines · 2024Review
- Identification of miR-29a as a novel biomarker for lumpy skin disease virus exposure in cattle.Virulence · 2024Article
- Characterizing Host microRNA: Virus Interactions ofViruses · 2024Article
- Macrophage Activation Syndrome in Coinciding Pandemics of Obesity and COVID-19: Worse than Bad.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024Review
- Cytokine Storm-Induced Thyroid Dysfunction in COVID-19: Insights into Pathogenesis and Therapeutic Approaches.Drug design, development and therapy · 2024Review
- Study on Potential Differentially Expressed Genes in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis by Bioinformatics and Next-Generation Sequencing Data Analysis.Biomedicines · 2023Article
- Modulation of IRAK enzymes as a therapeutic strategy against SARS-CoV-2 induced cytokine storm.Clinical and experimental medicine · 2023Review
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- Interplay of host and viral factors in inflammatory pathway mediated cytokine storm during RNA virus infection.Current research in immunology · 2023Review
- microRNA 1307 Is a Potential Target for SARS-CoV-2 Infection: AnACS omega · 2022Article
- Dysregulated miRNAs network in the critical COVID-19: An important clue for uncontrolled immunothrombosis/thromboinflammation.International immunopharmacology · 2022Review
- Tangled quest of post-COVID-19 infection-caused neuropathology and what 3P nano-bio-medicine can solve?The EPMA journal · 2022Review
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- miRNAs, from Evolutionary Junk to Possible Prognostic Markers and Therapeutic Targets in COVID-19.Viruses · 2021Review
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Abstract
SARS-CoV-2, as the causative agent of COVID-19, is an enveloped positives-sense single-stranded RNA virus that belongs to the Beta-CoVs sub-family. A sophisticated hyper-inflammatory reaction named cytokine storm is occurred in patients with severe/critical COVID-19, following an imbalance in immune-inflammatory processes and inhibition of antiviral responses by SARS-CoV-2, which leads to pulmonary failure, ARDS, and death. The miRNAs are small non-coding RNAs with an average length of 22 nucleotides which play various roles as one of the main modulators of genes expression and maintenance of immune system homeostasis. Recent evidence has shown that Homo sapiens (hsa)-miRNAs have the potential to work in three pivotal areas including targeting the virus genome, regulating the inflammatory signaling pathways, and reinforcing the production/signaling of IFNs-I. However, it seems that several SARS-CoV-2-induced interfering agents such as viral (v)-miRNAs, cytokine content, competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs), etc. preclude efficient function of hsa-miRNAs in severe/critical COVID-19. This subsequently leads to increased virus replication, intense inflammatory processes, and secondary complications development. In this review article, we provide an overview of hsa-miRNAs roles in viral genome targeting, inflammatory pathways modulation, and IFNs responses amplification in severe/critical COVID-19 accompanied by probable interventional factors and their function. Identification and monitoring of these interventional elements can help us in designing the miRNAs-based therapy for the reduction of complications/mortality rate in patients with severe/critical forms of the disease.
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