Air− liquid Interface cultures of the healthy and diseased human respiratory tract: promises, challenges, and future directions

D Baldassi, B Gabold, OM Merkel - Advanced nanobiomed …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Air− liquid interface (ALI) culture models currently represent a valid instrument to recreate
the typical aspects of the respiratory tract in vitro in both healthy and diseased state. They …

[HTML][HTML] Air-liquid interface (ALI) impact on different respiratory cell cultures

S Silva, J Bicker, A Falcão, A Fortuna - European Journal of Pharmaceutics …, 2023 - Elsevier
The intranasal route has been receiving greater attention from the scientific community not
only for systemic drug delivery but also for the treatment of pulmonary and neurological …

Characterization of the COPD alveolar niche using single-cell RNA sequencing

M Sauler, JE McDonough, TS Adams… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of death worldwide,
however our understanding of cell specific mechanisms underlying COPD pathobiology …

A diamidobenzimidazole STING agonist protects against SARS-CoV-2 infection

F Humphries, L Shmuel-Galia, Z Jiang, R Wilson… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Coronaviruses are a family of RNA viruses that cause acute and chronic diseases of the
upper and lower respiratory tract in humans and other animals. Severe acute respiratory …

SARS-CoV-2 infection of pluripotent stem cell-derived human lung alveolar type 2 cells elicits a rapid epithelial-intrinsic inflammatory response

J Huang, AJ Hume, KM Abo, RB Werder… - Cell Stem Cell, 2020 - cell.com
A hallmark of severe COVID-19 pneumonia is SARS-CoV-2 infection of the facultative
progenitors of lung alveoli, the alveolar epithelial type 2 cells (AT2s). However, inability to …

In vitro and in vivo models for studying SARS-CoV-2, the etiological agent responsible for COVID-19 pandemic

RB Rosa, WM Dantas, JCF do Nascimento… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
The emergence and rapid worldwide spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has prompted the scientific community to rapidly develop in …

Rapid endotheliitis and vascular damage characterize SARS‐CoV‐2 infection in a human lung‐on‐chip model

VV Thacker, K Sharma, N Dhar, GF Mancini… - EMBO …, 2021 - embopress.org
Severe cases of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection are characterized by hypercoagulopathies and
systemic endotheliitis of the lung microvasculature. The dynamics of vascular damage, and …

Harnessing organs-on-a-chip to model tissue regeneration

DN Tavakol, S Fleischer, G Vunjak-Novakovic - Cell Stem Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Tissue engineering has markedly matured since its early beginnings in the 1980s. In
addition to the original goal to regenerate damaged organs, the field has started to explore …

[HTML][HTML] Alveolar type II cells and pulmonary surfactant in COVID-19 era

A Calkovska, M Kolomaznik, V Calkovsky - Physiological research, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In this review, we discuss the role of pulmonary surfactant in the host defense against
respiratory pathogens, including novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In the lower respiratory …

[HTML][HTML] Culture impact on the transcriptomic programs of primary and iPSC-derived human alveolar type 2 cells

KD Alysandratos, C Garcia-de-Alba, C Yao, P Pessina… - JCI insight, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Dysfunction of alveolar epithelial type 2 cells (AEC2s), the facultative progenitors of lung
alveoli, is implicated in pulmonary disease pathogenesis, highlighting the importance of …