Anuradha Rajamanickam, Nathella Pavan Kumar, Aishwarya Venkataraman, Poovazhagi Varadarjan, Elilarasi Selladurai, Thangavelu Sankaralingam, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Ramya Selvam, Akshith Thimmaiah, Suresh Natarajan, Ganesh Ramaswamy, Sulochana Putlibai, Kalaimaran Sadasivam, Balasubramanian Sundaram, Syed Hissar, Uma Devi Ranganathan, Subash Babu
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) is a rare manifestation of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-CoronaVirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection that can result in increased morbidity and mortality. Mounting evidence describes sex disparities in the clinical outcomes of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, there is a lack of information on sex-specific differences in immune responses in MIS-C. This study is an observational and cross-sectional study and we wanted to examine immune parameters such as cytokines, chemokines, acute phase proteins (APPs), growth factors, microbial translocation markers (MTMs), complement components and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in MIS-C children, based on sex...
January 19, 2024: Scientific Reports