Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: New Evidence for How Blood Clots May Form in Very Ill COVID-19 Patients
June 30, 2020
June 30, 2020
COLD SPRING HARBOR, New York, June 30 -- The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory issued the following news:
Scientists have new evidence that overactive neutrophils--a common type of circulating immune cell--may drive the life-threatening blood clots and inflammation that occur in some patients with COVID-19. High levels of the sticky, pathogen-trapping webs produced by the cells were associated with the most severe cases of COVID-19 in a study reported online in the journal Blood.
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Scientists have new evidence that overactive neutrophils--a common type of circulating immune cell--may drive the life-threatening blood clots and inflammation that occur in some patients with COVID-19. High levels of the sticky, pathogen-trapping webs produced by the cells were associated with the most severe cases of COVID-19 in a study reported online in the journal Blood.
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