#Macrophages

Avraham Z. Cooper, MD

AvrahamCooperMD

1/ Ever wonder why eosinophils vanish from the blood after exposure to steroids? I assumed that steroids somehow destroy them and that is why they disappear.But there's a lot more

Anand Jagannath

AnandJag1

My team recently asked WHY we give Fe to pts with HFrEF+anemia. First answer: b/c someone told me soBetter answer: let me get back to you on thatLet’s explore and

Lumos Biotech

lumosbio

"Imbalanced host response to #SARSCoV2 drives development of #COVID19" Highlighting "We propose that reduced innate #antiviral defenses coupled with exuberant inflammatory #cytokine production are the defining and driving feature

Mike Barnkob

mikebarnkob

CD8+ T cells play an important role in clearing respiratory virus. I looked at 10 preprints from @biorxivpreprint and @medrxivpreprint all exploring T cell responses to #SARS2/#COVID19. In no particular

Columbia Surgery

ColumbiaSurgery

Donna Farber is an immunologist who studies the immune response to respiratory viruses, lung immunity, and human immunology. The COVID-19 and Immunology webinar starts now! Follow along #FarberCOVID19 COVID-19 symptom

The Immunologist

eclecticbiotech

A thread on antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) in #coronaviruses. While developing vaccines, treating patients with convalescent plasma, and considering immunity passports, we must first understand the complex role of antibodies in

Leo Reap

Leo_ReapDO

Proposed COVID-19 Pathophysiology [Part 1 of 3]What do #COVID-19 and #Dengue fever potentially have in common?The answers have significant potential clinical implications in COVID-19.Buckle up. It's a long one.Let’s take

Leo Reap

Leo_ReapDO

Proposed COVID-19 Pathophysiology [Part 2 of 3]:Enter the magnificent macrophage.What do #COVID-19 and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (#HLH) potentially have in common?...let’s continue our journey onward into the cytokine storm. First, let’s

Satoshi Akima

ToshiAkima

"Cytokine Storm". The idiot's buzzword of the week. It makes you sound smarter if you say it often enough. When I first heard of it in 1994 it sounded AMAZING!

Elie Balesh, MD

ElieBalesh

I’m going to go out on a limb and hypothesize that glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) enzyme level/function plays a central pathophysiologic role in host cell response to SARS-CoV2 infection. Explains a

Anjill 🕊

AnjillofLight_

1. I came over a report the other day, and then it hit me. This thread will explain what I realized [may] be happening. Disclosures: This is an exploratory thread.

Rafael Fonseca MD

Rfonsi1

*** COVID19 and males***Is infection with SARS-CoV-2 more virulent among males, and if so why? Can we do anything about it, or use this information for treatment purposes. This thread

A. Cuesta-Vargas

aicuesta

knowing The Enemy Conociendo "al Enemigo"Clinical characteristics of 2019 novel coronavirus infection in China https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.06.20020974v1First Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the United States

RunTheList

runthelistpod

Let's HIT the topic Heparin-induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT)!This #tweetorial is a deep dive into Episode 43 of Run the List (RTL) on Thrombocytopenia: https://bit.ly/32feVfQ Thanks @LeelaChock for covering this week’s topic!

Leo Reap

Leo_ReapDO

Proposed COVID-19 Pathophysiology [Part 3 of (now) 4]: Coagulopathy Strikes Back.What happens when #COVID19 clashes with the

najbeb

najbeb1

i did it, i put together a list of almost 365 anime characters, hopefully the fact that the list is more or less completed lets me stay on top of