Title:Neuroinflammation, Diabetes and COVID-19: Perspectives Coming from
Ca2+/cAMP Signalling
Volume: 14
Issue: 1
Author(s): Leandro Bueno Bergantin*
Affiliation:
- Department of Pharmacology, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo - Rua Pedro de Toledo,
669 - Vila Clementino, São Paulo - SP 04039-032, Brazil
Keywords:
Epilepsy, diabetes, dementia, Ca2+/CAMP signalling, Ca2+ channel blockers, pharmacotherapy, neurodegeneration, COVID-19.
Abstract: A link between inflammatory diseases, e.g., epilepsy, dementia, diabetes, and
COVID-19, has been established. For instance, observational studies involving several individuals
reported that people with epilepsy show an enhanced incidence of manifesting dysfunctions related
to cognition, e.g., dementia, while people with dementia have a higher incidence of manifesting
epilepsy, thus an evident bidirectional relationship between epilepsy and dementia might occur. In
addition, epilepsy commonly cooccurs in patients with diabetes, indicating an association between
these two disorders. Intriguingly, some reports have also observed a poor prognosis of people with
both diabetes and COVID-19. It is recognized that a dyshomeostasis of both Ca2+ and cAMP signalling
pathways could be a molecular connection for these disorders. Therefore, clarifying this
clinical relationship among epilepsy, dementia, diabetes, and COVID-19 may outcome in novel hypotheses
for identifying the etiology of these disorders.