The Effect of Dexamethasone Treatment on COVID-19 Prognosis in Cancer Patients
Vaccines, 2022 Background: Dexamethasone is used to treat cancer, relieve chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, enhance cancer patients’ appetites, and treat COVID-19 patients. There is little evidence of the impact of a dexamethasone treatment plan on the severity
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 BackgroundSevere COVID-19 pneumonia requiring intensive care treatment remains a clinical challenge to date. Dexamethasone was reported as a promising treatment option, leading to a reduction of mortality rates in severe COVID-19 disease.
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2021 Objective: To compare the therapeutic efficacies of high dose dexamethasone, prednisone and rituximab in combination with dexamethasone for newly diagnosed ITP (Immune Thrombocytopenia, ITP) patients.Methods and results: Relevant publications for this ...
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Immune and ionic mechanisms mediating the effect of dexamethasone in severe COVID-19
Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 IntroductionSevere COVID-19 is characterized by cytokine storm, an excessive production of proinflammatory cytokines that contributes to acute lung damage and death.
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Dexamethasone and Dexamethasone Phosphate: Effect on DMPC Membrane Models
Pharmaceutics, 2023 Dexamethasone (Dex) and Dexamethasone phosphate (Dex-P) are synthetic glucocorticoids with high anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive actions that gained visibility because they reduce the mortality in critical patients with COVID-19 connected to assisted breathing.
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Haematologica, 2016 Pomalidomide + low-dose dexamethasone is effective and well tolerated for refractory or relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma after bortezomib and lenalidomide failure.
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Dexamethasone and RU24858 induce survival and growth factor receptor bound protein 2, leukotriene B4 receptor 1 and annexin-1 expression in primary human neutrophils [PDF]
, 2012 Glucocorticoids are widely used anti-inflammatory medication in diseases like asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Glucocorticoids can either activate (transactivation) or inhibit (transrepression) transcription. RU24858 was introduced as a
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Dexamethasone enhances osteogenic differentiation of bone marrow- and muscle-derived stromal cells and augments ectopic bone formation induced by bone morphogenetic protein-2. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 UNLABELLED:We evaluated whether dexamethasone augments the osteogenic capability of bone marrow-derived stromal cells (BMSCs) and muscle tissue-derived stromal cells (MuSCs), both of which are thought to contribute to ectopic bone formation induced by ...
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BMP2 and TGF-β Cooperate Differently during Synovial-Derived Stem-Cell Chondrogenesis in a Dexamethasone-Dependent Manner [PDF]
, 2019 Recent studies highlighting mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) epigenetic memory suggest that a different differentiation medium may be required depending on the tissue of origin.
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Treatment of oral chronic graft-versus-host disease: a retrospective cohort study
Einstein (São Paulo), 2021 Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate patients with complete response of oral chronic graft-versus-host disease to immunosuppressive treatment.
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