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Induction of Ocular Surface Inflammation and Collection of Involved Tissues

Ocular surface diseases include a range of disorders that disturb the functions and structures of the cornea, conjunctiva, and the associated ocular ...

Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen

SARS-CoV-2 infection poses a major threat to the lungs and multiple other organs, occasionally causing death. Until effective vaccines are developed to curb the pandemic, it is paramount to define the mechanisms and develop protective therapies to prevent organ dysfunction in patients with COVID-19. Individuals that develop severe manifestations have signs of dysregulated innate and adaptive immune responses. Emerging evidence implicates neutrophils and the disbalance between neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) formation and degradation plays a central role in the pathophysiology of inflammation, coagulopathy, organ damage, and immunothrombosis that characterize severe cases of COVID-19. Here, we discuss the evidence supporting a role for NETs in COVID-19 manifestations and present putative mechanisms, by which NETs promote tissue injury and immunothrombosis. We present therapeutic strategies, which have been successful in the treatment of immunο-inflammatory disorders and which target dysregulated NET formation or degradation, as potential approaches that may benefit patients with severe COVID-19.

Patients with COVID-19: in the dark-NETs of neutrophils.

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Phagocytosis, degranulation, and neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) formation build the armory of neutrophils for the first line of defense against invading pathogens. All these processes are modulated by the microenvironment including tonicity, pH and oxygen levels. Here we investigated the neutrophil infiltration in cardiac tissue autopsy samples of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and compared these with tissues from patients with sepsis, endocarditis, dermal inflammation, abscesses and diseases with prominent neutrophil infiltration. We observed many neutrophils infiltrating the heart muscle after myocardial infarction. Most of these had viable morphology and only few showed signs of nuclear de-condensation, a hallmark of early NET formation. The abundance of NETs was the lowest in acute myocardial infarction when compared to other examined diseases. Since cardiac oxygen supply is abruptly abrogated in acute myocardial infarction, we hypothesized that the resulting tissue hypoxia increased the longevity of the neutrophils. Indeed, the viable cells showed increased nuclear hypoxia inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) content, and only neutrophils with low HIF-1α started the process of NET formation (chromatin de-condensation and nuclear swelling). Prolonged neutrophil survival, increased oxidative burst and reduced NETs formation were reproduced under low oxygen tensions and by HIF-1α stabilization . We conclude that nuclear HIF-1α is associated with prolonged neutrophil survival and enhanced oxidative stress in hypoxic areas of AMI.

Jeeshan Singh

Department of Internal Medicine 3-Rheumatology and Immunology,
Deutsches Zentrum für Immuntherapie

Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen

Induction of Ocular Surface Inflammation and Collection of Involved Tissues

Jeeshan Singh

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Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen

Induction of Ocular Surface Inflammation and Collection of Involved Tissues

Department of Internal Medicine 3-Rheumatology and Immunology,
Deutsches Zentrum für Immuntherapie