Deep immune profiling of MIS-C demonstrates marked but transient immune activation compared with adult and pediatric COVID-19

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Abstract

MIS-C is defined by lymphocyte activation, including elevated plasmablast frequencies and marked activation of CX3CR1 + CD8 + T cells.

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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementConsent: All participants or their surrogates provided informed consent in accordance with protocols approved by the regional ethical research boards and the Declaration of Helsinki. Blood Processing: Peripheral blood was collected into sodium heparin tubes (BD, Cat#367874) and processed for staining from whole blood or for PBMC, as previously described 22,25.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Human Subjects: Clinical data abstraction: For inpatients, clinical data were abstracted from the electronic medical record into REDCap databases.
    REDCap
    suggested: (REDCap, RRID:SCR_003445)
    Flow Cytometric Analyses: All analysis and visualization was performed in FlowJo (Treestar, version 10.6.2).
    FlowJo
    suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).


    Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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