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This hypothesis paper is an urgent call for the development of research programs that aim at questioning whether the putative protagonists of this tragedy are real-life actors in COVID-19. V.BACKGROUND The component (C3) of the complement system constitutes a central element in liver transplantation. C3 is produced mainly by the liver and comprises both slow (C3-S), and fast (C3-F) components. METHODS The effect of a single nucleotide variation in the C3 gene on the first-year outcome examined by ARMS PCR in 30 recipients of living donor allograft. RESULTS Frequencies of C3-S and C3-F in the Egyptian recipients' population were 67% and 33%. C3-F allele frequency was prevalent than the C3-S allele in recipients who developed acute rejection. The C3-SF and C3-FF genotypes significantly associated with acute rejection with 6.25 times increase in the risk of rejection than C3-SS (OR 6.25; CI1.05-37.07, p  .05). CONCLUSION In liver allograft recipients, C3-SF and C3-FF genotypes significantly associated with acute rejection with the C3-F allele more prevalent than the C3-S. C3-SS genotype increases survival without significant association. Winter is a high incidence period of skin ulceration syndrome in the sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus. Disease control during the overwintering of sea cucumber can help increase yield and reduce losses. The purpose of this study was to study the effect of the low temperature-resistant probiotic Bacillus baekryungensis MS1 on the growth and immune parameters of sea cucumbers and preliminarily investigate the molecular mechanism of the effects. A low temperature-resistant bacterium, B. baekryungensis MS1, was isolated from a sea cucumber pond in winter and used for culture experiments. After 10 days of prefeeding, the experiment was divided into the control group (fed with commercial diet) and the MS1 group (fed with diet containing B. baekryungensis MS1 at 107 cfu g-1) for a total of 60 days. The specific growth rate was measured at the end of the culture period to evaluate the growth performance of the sea cucumber. Samples were taken on days 30 and 60 to determine the immune parameters (including superoxi summary, the low temperature-resistant bacterium B. baekryungensis MS1 could be applied for the aquiculture of sea cucumber in winter to improve health status and resist pathogenic bacteria such as V. splendidus. JAK inhibitor We investigated the antimicrobial properties and the effects of Rheum officinale extract (ROE) on nonspecific immune parameters of orange-spotted grouper (Epinephelus coioides) in vitro and in vivo. The in vitro analysis was conducted by treating grouper primary head kidney leukocytes with various concentrations of ROE. The phagocytic rate of the leukocytes was elevated in a dose-dependent manner from 0.01 to 0.1 mg/ml, but decreased with higher concentrations of ROE (0.5 and 1.0 mg/ml). The production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) was strongly enhanced in a dose-dependent manner by treatment with ROE doses of 0.1-10.0 mg/ml. However, morphological changes (e.g., rounding and shrinkage of cells, chromatin condensation, fragmentation, and appearance of apoptotic bodies) were observed in the leukocytes after incubation with higher concentrations of ROE (1.0 and 10.0 mg/ml). A 28-day feeding trial was performed to assess the impact of dietary administration of ROE on grouper innate immunity parameters. Fish were fed with feed supplemented with 0, 0.1, 1.0, or 5.0 g ROE per kg of feed. The phagocytic activity of the animals' leukocytes was significantly elevated in all ROE-fed groups on day 1 and in groups fed with ROE at 0.1 or 1.0 g/kg on day 14. Production of ROS was substantially increased on day 1 in fish fed with ROE at 1.0 and 5.0 g/kg, but decreased steadily later on. The ability to generate ROS increased steadily until day 7 in fish fed the lowest concentration of ROE (0.1 mg/ml), but decreased thereafter. ROE showed excellent antibacterial activity against six pathogens of aquatic animals Vibrio parahaemolyticus, V. vulnificus, V. alginolyticus, V. carchariae, Aeromonas hydrophila, and Edwardsiella tarda. The minimum inhibitory and bactericidal concentrations of measured ROE-derived anthraquinones were 10.57-84.53 μg/ml and 10.57-169.05 μg/ml, respectively. Exposure to antimicrobials leading to microbiota dysbiosis has been found to be an independent risk factor for extensively drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa acquisition. Microbiota dysbiosis may induce imbalanced immune responses and can affect disease susceptibility. However, the potential role of commensal microbiota in bacterial pneumonia is poorly defined. The aim of this study was to investigate the mechanistic basis for the defective host defenses against P. aeruginosa pneumonia induced by antibiotic pretreatment perturbing microbiota. We found that antibiotic pretreatment significantly perturbed the composition of intestinal microbiota. The microbiota dysbiosis impaired host defenses against P. aeruginosa pneumonia, as reflected by the increased bacterial burden and dissemination, compromised local inflammatory responses and shortened survival time in microbiota-depleted mice compared with controls. This impairment correlated with a defective γδ T17 cell and downstream neutrophil responses. Anti-TCRγδ-treated mice had changes similar to those in the microbiota-depleted mice. Overall, our results suggest the importance of microbiota in supporting the host defense against pneumonia, define a crucial role for the γδ T cell-neutrophil axis in the potential mechanism, and delineate the deleterious effects of antibiotic treatment on antibacterial defenses. Increasing evidence points to host Th17 inflammatory responses as contributing to the severe lung pathology and mortality of lower respiratory tract infections from coronaviruses. This includes host inflammatory and cytokine responses to COVID-19 caused by the SARS-2 coronavirus (SARS CoV2). From studies conducted in laboratory animals, there are additional concerns about immune enhancement and the role of potential host immunopathology resulting from experimental human COVID-19 vaccines. Here we summarize evidence suggesting there may be partial overlap between the underlying immunopathologic processes linked to both coronavirus infection and vaccination, and a role for Th17 in immune enhancement and eosinophilic pulmonary immunopathology. Such findings help explain the link between viral-vectored coronavirus vaccines and immune enhancement and its reduction through alum adjuvants. Additional research may also clarify links between COVID-19 pulmonary immunopathology and heart disease.