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Comp Clin Path . Exosomes and COVID-19: challenges and opportunities

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  • Comp Clin Path . Exosomes and COVID-19: challenges and opportunities


    Comp Clin Path


    . 2022 Jan 13;1-8.
    doi: 10.1007/s00580-021-03311-3. Online ahead of print.
    Exosomes and COVID-19: challenges and opportunities


    Ghader Babaei 1 , Nasrin Zare 1 , Aynaz Mihanfar 1 , Mohammad Hassan Khadem Ansari 1



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    Abstract

    Coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19, starting from Wuhan, China, in December 2019, is a pandemic situation affecting millions worldwide and has exerted a huge burden on healthcare infrastructure. Therefore, there is an urgent need to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and design novel effective therapeutic strategies for combating this pandemic. In this regard, special attention has been paid to the exosomes. These nanoparticles are extracellular vesicles with critical function in the pathogenesis of several diseases including viral sepsis. Therefore, they may be involved in the pathogenesis of COVID-19 infection and also may be a way for transferring viral components and infecting other neighbor cells. Exosomes also can be considered as a therapeutic strategy for treating COVID-19 patients or used as a carrier for delivering effective therapeutic agents. Therefore, in this review, we discussed the biogenesis and contents of exosomes, their function in viral infection, and their potential as a therapeutic candidate in treating COVID-19.

    Keywords: COVID-19; COVID-19 transmission; Drug delivery; Exosomes.

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