INF 1 biomarker paper21 May 2021 20:57
Paper on using INF I as a biomarker for severe disease as INF I underexpression is correlated with severe disease.
“The dysregulation of pulmonary responses, including decreased TH17 cells (and CD8+ T cells [10]) and IFN-I (the latter is associated with impaired TLR7 and TLR8 expres- sion), and the elevation of IgA, MMPs, MUC1, hyaluronic acid, and PAI-I (as well as my- eloid cells [4,5,10]), is correlated with the disease severity (see more discussion in Figure 3). Amongst the above-mentioned factors, IFN-I and PAI-1 are dysregulated in older age, male gender, and preexisting diseases that are associated with increased risk to develop severe disease, and we propose the underexpression of IFN-I (and TLR7/TLR8) and the hypersecretion of PAI-1 as potential biomarkers to predict the susceptibility to severe COVID-19 (and maybe also other lung infections).”
https://res.mdpi.com/d_attachment/viruses/viruses-13-00957/article_deploy/viruses-13-00957.pdf”