Pathways for bradykinin formation and interrelationship with complement as a cause of edematous lung in COVID-19 patients

J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2021 Feb;147(2):507-509. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2020.10.025. Epub 2020 Oct 28.

Authors

Allen P Kaplan¹, Berhane Ghebrehiwet²

Affiliations

¹ Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC. Electronic address: kaplana@musc.edu.
² Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Clinical Immunology, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY.

No abstract available

Keywords: Bradykinin; COVID; edema; kallikrein.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Bradykinin / immunology*
COVID-19 / immunology*
Complement System Proteins / immunology*
Edema / immunology
Humans
SARS-CoV-2*

Substances

Complement System Proteins
Bradykinin