A human-airway-on-a-chip for the rapid identification of candidate antiviral therapeutics and prophylactics

L Si, H Bai, M Rodas, W Cao, CY Oh, A Jiang… - Nature biomedical …, 2021 - nature.com
The rapid repurposing of antivirals is particularly pressing during pandemics. However,
rapid assays for assessing candidate drugs typically involve in vitro screens and cell lines …

COVID-19: Discovery, diagnostics and drug development

T Asselah, D Durantel, E Pasmant, G Lau… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Summary Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) started as an epidemic in Wuhan in 2019,
and has since become a pandemic. Groups from China identified and sequenced the virus …

Chest CT in COVID-19: what the radiologist needs to know

TC Kwee, RM Kwee - Radiographics, 2020 - pubs.rsna.org
Chest CT has a potential role in the diagnosis, detection of complications, and
prognostication of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Implementation of appropriate …

COVID-19 severity correlates with airway epithelium–immune cell interactions identified by single-cell analysis

RL Chua, S Lukassen, S Trump, BP Hennig… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
To investigate the immune response and mechanisms associated with severe coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19), we performed single-cell RNA sequencing on nasopharyngeal …

Neuroinvasion of SARS-CoV-2 in human and mouse brain

E Song, C Zhang, B Israelow, A Lu-Culligan… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - rupress.org
Although COVID-19 is considered to be primarily a respiratory disease, SARS-CoV-2 affects
multiple organ systems including the central nervous system (CNS). Yet, there is no …

Single-cell meta-analysis of SARS-CoV-2 entry genes across tissues and demographics

C Muus, MD Luecken, G Eraslan, L Sikkema… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and accessory proteases (TMPRSS2 and
CTSL) are needed for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) …

Influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2: pathogenesis and host responses in the respiratory tract

T Flerlage, DF Boyd, V Meliopoulos… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Influenza viruses cause annual epidemics and occasional pandemics of respiratory tract
infections that produce a wide spectrum of clinical disease severity in humans. The novel …

Monocytes and Macrophages in COVID-19

R Knoll, JL Schultze, J Schulte-Schrepping - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
COVID-19 is a contagious viral disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that led to an ongoing
pandemic with massive global health and socioeconomic consequences. The disease is …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 reverse genetics reveals a variable infection gradient in the respiratory tract

YJ Hou, K Okuda, CE Edwards, DR Martinez… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The mode of acquisition and causes for the variable clinical spectrum of coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) remain unknown. We utilized a reverse genetics system to generate a …

COVID-19 pulmonary pathology: a multi-institutional autopsy cohort from Italy and New York City

AC Borczuk, SP Salvatore, SV Seshan, SS Patel… - Modern …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract SARS-CoV-2, the etiologic agent of COVID-19, is a global pandemic with
substantial mortality dominated by acute respiratory distress syndrome. We systematically …