|  | Caspase-4/11 exacerbates disease severity in SARS-CoV-2 infection by promoting inflammation and immunothrombosis.
| Publication Year: | 2022 |  
| Country: | USA |  
| PMID: | PMC9173818 |  
| Publication: | Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022;119(21):e2202012119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2202012119 |  
| Institute: | Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH , 43210; Neuroscience graduate program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH , 43210;
 Infectious Diseases Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH , 43210;
 Faculty of Pharmacy, Helwan University, Cairo,11731 Egypt;
 Department of Veterinary Biosciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH , 43210;
 Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH , 43210;
 Center for Vaccines and Immunity, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH , 43205;
 Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH , 43210;
 Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases and Center for Human Development, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY , 10027;
 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA , 30322;
 Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA , 30322;
 Emory Vaccine Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA , 30322;
 Department of Neuroscience, Chronic Brain Injury Discovery Theme, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH , 43210;
 Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH , 43205;
 Center for Informatics Science, Nile University, Giza, 12525, Egypt;
 Department of Neurological Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH , 43210
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| Instrument: | BOND RX |  
| Authors: | Eltobgy MM, Zani A, Kenney AD, et al. |  
| Study Goals: | To investigate the fundamental roles for the noncanonical inflammasome molecule Caspase-4/11 in promoting pathological inflammatory and prothrombotic pathways in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS–CoV-2) infections |  
| Keywords: | innate immunity, SARS–CoV-2, thrombosis |  |