Humanized mice for immune system investigation: progress, promise and challenges

LD Shultz, MA Brehm, JV Garcia-Martinez… - Nature Reviews …, 2012 - nature.com
Significant advances in our understanding of the in vivo functions of human cells and tissues
and the human immune system have resulted from the development of'humanized'mouse …

[HTML][HTML] Broad-spectrum agents for flaviviral infections: dengue, Zika and beyond

V Boldescu, MAM Behnam, N Vasilakis… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2017 - nature.com
Infections with flaviviruses, such as dengue, West Nile virus and the recently re-emerging
Zika virus, are an increasing and probably lasting global risk. This Review summarizes and …

[HTML][HTML] DENV inhibits type I IFN production in infected cells by cleaving human STING

S Aguirre, AM Maestre, S Pagni, JR Patel, T Savage… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Dengue virus (DENV) is a pathogen with a high impact on human health. It replicates in a
wide range of cells involved in the immune response. To efficiently infect humans, DENV …

[HTML][HTML] Fever from the forest: prospects for the continued emergence of sylvatic dengue virus and its impact on public health

N Vasilakis, J Cardosa, KA Hanley… - Nature Reviews …, 2011 - nature.com
The four dengue virus (DENV) serotypes that circulate among humans emerged
independently from ancestral sylvatic progenitors that were present in non-human primates …

Human hemato-lymphoid system mice: current use and future potential for medicine

A Rongvaux, H Takizawa, T Strowig… - Annual review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
To directly study complex human hemato-lymphoid system physiology and respective
system-associated diseases in vivo, human-to-mouse xenotransplantation models for …

Dengue—quo tu et quo vadis?

R Chen, N Vasilakis - Viruses, 2011 - mdpi.com
Dengue viruses (DENV) are by far the most important arboviral pathogens in the tropics
around the world, putting at risk of infection nearly a third of the global human population …

Pathogenesis of the viral hemorrhagic fevers

S Paessler, DH Walker - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Four families of enveloped RNA viruses, filoviruses, flaviviruses, arenaviruses, and
bunyaviruses, cause hemorrhagic fevers. These viruses are maintained in specific natural …

Dynamics of dengue disease severity determined by the interplay between viral genetics and serotype-specific immunity

M OhAinle, A Balmaseda, AR Macalalad… - Science translational …, 2011 - science.org
The rapid spread of dengue is a worldwide public health problem. In two clinical studies of
dengue in Managua, Nicaragua, we observed an abrupt increase in disease severity across …

[HTML][HTML] Potential role of flavivirus NS2B-NS3 proteases in viral pathogenesis and anti-flavivirus drug discovery employing animal cells and models: a review

A Wahaab, BE Mustafa, M Hameed, NJ Stevenson… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Flaviviruses are known to cause a variety of diseases in humans in different parts of the
world. There are very limited numbers of antivirals to combat flavivirus infection, and …

Strategies for development of dengue virus inhibitors

CG Noble, YL Chen, H Dong, F Gu, SP Lim, W Schul… - Antiviral research, 2010 - Elsevier
Antiviral drug discovery is becoming increasingly important due to the global threat of viral
disease pandemics. Many members of the genus Flavivirus are significant human …