Why is COVID-19 less severe in children? A review of the proposed mechanisms underlying the age-related difference in severity of SARS-CoV-2 infections

P Zimmermann, N Curtis - Archives of disease in childhood, 2021 - adc.bmj.com
In contrast to other respiratory viruses, children have less severe symptoms when infected
with the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In this …

Severe COVID-19, multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, and Kawasaki disease: immunological mechanisms, clinical manifestations and management

J Kabeerdoss, RK Pilania, R Karkhele… - Rheumatology …, 2021 - Springer
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) is a pediatric hyperinflammation disorder
caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). It has now been …

Identifying disease-critical cell types and cellular processes by integrating single-cell RNA-sequencing and human genetics

KA Jagadeesh, KK Dey, DT Montoro, R Mohan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies provide a powerful means of identifying loci and genes
contributing to disease, but in many cases, the related cell types/states through which genes …

Mapping single-cell data to reference atlases by transfer learning

M Lotfollahi, M Naghipourfar, MD Luecken… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Large single-cell atlases are now routinely generated to serve as references for analysis of
smaller-scale studies. Yet learning from reference data is complicated by batch effects …

SARS-CoV-2 infection of the oral cavity and saliva

N Huang, P Pérez, T Kato, Y Mikami, K Okuda… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Despite signs of infection—including taste loss, dry mouth and mucosal lesions such as
ulcerations, enanthema and macules—the involvement of the oral cavity in coronavirus …

Lineage plasticity in prostate cancer depends on JAK/STAT inflammatory signaling

JM Chan, S Zaidi, JR Love, JL Zhao, M Setty… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Drug resistance in cancer is often linked to changes in tumor cell state or lineage, but the
molecular mechanisms driving this plasticity remain unclear. Using murine organoid and …

SARS-CoV-2 spike-protein D614G mutation increases virion spike density and infectivity

L Zhang, CB Jackson, H Mou, A Ojha, H Peng… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 variants with spike (S)-protein D614G mutations now predominate globally.
We therefore compare the properties of the mutated S protein (SG614) with the original …

The protein expression profile of ACE2 in human tissues

F Hikmet, L Méar, Å Edvinsson, P Micke… - Molecular systems …, 2020 - embopress.org
The novel SARS‐coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) poses a global challenge on healthcare and
society. For understanding the susceptibility for SARS‐CoV‐2 infection, the cell type‐specific …

Local and systemic responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and adults

M Yoshida, KB Worlock, N Huang, RGH Lindeboom… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
It is not fully understood why COVID-19 is typically milder in children,–. Here, to examine the
differences between children and adults in their response to SARS-CoV-2 infection, we …

ACE2: Evidence of role as entry receptor for SARS-CoV-2 and implications in comorbidities

N Zamorano Cuervo, N Grandvaux - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Pandemic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes
coronavirus 19 disease (COVID-19) which presents a large spectrum of manifestations with …