Scientists unravel life-saving effect of dexamethasone in COVID-19

[SWAlexander]

Dexamethasone is one of the most important drugs in the treatment of severe COVID-19, but patients respond very differently to the therapy. Researchers at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) have now discovered how the cortisone compound influences the impaired inflammatory response and which patients benefit from it. Their method uses so-called single-cell analyses and raises hopes for a precise prediction tool for other therapies and diseases as well. The findings have been published in the scientific journal Cell*.
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