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Review
. 2022 Oct:111:109161.
doi: 10.1016/j.intimp.2022.109161. Epub 2022 Aug 18.

Targeted therapy in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Implication from cell and gene therapy to immunotherapy and vaccine

Moein Shirzad  1 , Marjan Nourigorji  1 , Atefe Sajedi  2 , Maryam Ranjbar  3 , Faeze Rasti  1 , Zahra Sourani  1 , Mona Moradi  4 , Seyed Mostafa Mir  5 , Mohammad Yousef Memar  6
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Targeted therapy in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Implication from cell and gene therapy to immunotherapy and vaccine

Moein Shirzad et al. Int Immunopharmacol. 2022 Oct.

Abstract

Severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly pathogenic and transmissible virus. Infection caused by SARS-CoV-2 known as Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can be severe, especially among high risk populations affected of underlying medical conditions. COVID-19 is characterized by the severe acute respiratory syndrome, a hyper inflammatory syndrome, vascular injury, microangiopathy and thrombosis. Antiviral drugs and immune modulating methods has been evaluated. So far, a particular therapeutic option has not been approved for COVID-19 and a variety of treatments have been studied for COVID-19 including, current treatment such as oxygen therapy, corticosteroids, antiviral agents until targeted therapy and vaccines which are diverse in each patient and have various outcomes. According to the findings of different in vitro and in vivo studies, some novel approach such as gene editing, cell based therapy, and immunotherapy may have significant potential in the treatment of COVID-19. Based on these findings, this paper aims to review the different strategies of treatment against COVID-19 and provide a summary from traditional and newer methods in curing COVID-19.

Keywords: Cell based therapy; Coronavirus; Immunotherapy; Vaccine.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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