Inhaled hydrogel-based microspheres for management of COVID-19: A new sweeper biological platform

Ruoyu Cheng; Hélder A Santos

doi:10.1016/j.matt.2022.03.008

Inhaled hydrogel-based microspheres for management of COVID-19: A new sweeper biological platform

Matter. 2022 Apr 6;5(4):1065-1067. doi: 10.1016/j.matt.2022.03.008.

Authors

Ruoyu Cheng^{1

2}, Hélder A Santos^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biomedical Engineering and W.J. Kolff Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Groningen/University Medical Center Groningen, Ant. Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, the Netherlands.
² Drug Research Program, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland.

Abstract

The cytokine storm caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection threatens the condition of patients, even leading to death. In a recent issue of Matter, Prof. Wenguo Cui and co-workers have prepared lung-sweeper inhaled hydrogel microspheres for intratracheal neutralization of COVID-19 and cytokine storm calming, which could be applied for antiviral tissue regeneration, drug delivery, and disease diagnosis.

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