La terapia de inhibición TOP1 protege contra la inflamación letal inducida por el SARS-CoV-2

Jessica Sook Yuin Ho1, Bobo Wing-Yee Mok2, Laura Campisi1

  • 1Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.

Cell
|April 9, 2021
PubMed
Resumen

La inhibición de la topoisomerasa 1 (TOP1) suprime efectivamente la inflamación letal causada por la infección por SARS-CoV-2. Este enfoque, que utiliza el fármaco topotecan (TPT), es prometedor para tratar el COVID-19 grave y reducir la mortalidad.

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