《Nature,5月12日,Single-cell landscape of bronchoalveolar immune cells in patients with COVID-19》

  • 来源专题:COVID-19科研动态监测
  • 编译者: zhangmin
  • 发布时间:2020-05-13
  • Single-cell landscape of bronchoalveolar immune cells in patients with COVID-19

    Mingfeng Liao, Yang Liu, Jing Yuan, Yanling Wen, Gang Xu, Juanjuan Zhao, Lin Cheng, Jinxiu Li, Xin Wang, Fuxiang Wang, Lei Liu, Ido Amit, Shuye Zhang & Zheng Zhang

    Nature Medicine (2020)

    Abstract

    Respiratory immune characteristics associated with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) severity are currently unclear. We characterized bronchoalveolar lavage fluid immune cells from patients with varying severity of COVID-19 and from healthy people by using single-cell RNA sequencing. Proinflammatory monocyte-derived macrophages were abundant in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from patients with severe COVID-9. Moderate cases were characterized by the presence of highly clonally expanded CD8+ T cells. This atlas of the bronchoalveolar immune microenvironment suggests potential mechanisms underlying pathogenesis and recovery in COVID-19.

  • 原文来源:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0901-9
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