Covid-19 not characterised by cytokine storm: Study – Daijiworld.com

London, Sep 6 (IANS): Challenging an earlier assumption, a new research has shown that disease severity in patients with Covid-19 may not be due to cytokine storm.
Inflammatory proteins also known as cytokines play a crucial role in the immune response. If this immune response was too strong, a phenomenon known as “cytokine storm” can cause harm to the patient. It has been thought that a cytokine storm characterises Covid-19 although it was not clearly defined.
In many cases, different cytokin…

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