Editorial: A Compendium of Recent Research on Stem Cell-Based Therapy for Covid-19

We have been dealing with an unprecedented global health crisis for nearly 2 years now. This started after an outbreak of atypical pneumonia of unknown etiology that was described in late December 2019 in China’s Wuhan Province, the etiologic agent causing this pneumonia episode was identified as a...

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Autores: Hmadcha, Abdelkrim, Soria Escoms, Bernat, Zhao, Robert C., Smani, Tarik, Valverde, Israel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/268590
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/268590
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Advanced therapies
Clinical trials
Cell therapies
Mesenchymal stromal cells
CAR T cells
COVID-19
Cytokine storm
Immunomodulaion
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Sumario:We have been dealing with an unprecedented global health crisis for nearly 2 years now. This started after an outbreak of atypical pneumonia of unknown etiology that was described in late December 2019 in China’s Wuhan Province, the etiologic agent causing this pneumonia episode was identified as a novel coronavirus named “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus-2” (SARS-CoV-2)" (Coronaviridae Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, 2020; Wu et al., 2020) and the disease was designated COronaVIrus Disease-2019 (COVID-19). The rapid expansion of COVID-19 cases in number and geographic distribution led the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a global health emergency. The control of the disease was challenged by the lack of antiviral treatment and vaccines, by asymptomatic carriers and the rapid increase in infections worldwide; COVID-19 was officially classified and declared by WHO as a pandemic on March 11, 2020 (WHO, 2020).