Potential antiviral drugs for SARS-Cov-2 treatment: preclinical findings and ongoing clinical research

S Bimonte, A Crispo, A Amore, E Celentano, A Cuomo… - in vivo, 2020 - iv.iiarjournals.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2), initially termed 2019-new
CoV (2019-nCoV), is a novel coronavirus responsible for the severe respiratory illness …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 compared to other pandemic diseases

SD Pitlik - Rambam Maimonides medical journal, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In December 2019, the first cases of a new contagious disease were diagnosed in the city of
Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province in China. Within a short period of time the outbreak …

[HTML][HTML] Age-dependent progression of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Syrian hamsters

N Osterrieder, LD Bertzbach, K Dietert, A Abdelgawad… - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
In late 2019, an outbreak of a severe respiratory disease caused by an emerging
coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, resulted in high morbidity and mortality in infected humans …

[HTML][HTML] The hallmarks of COVID-19 disease

D Tang, P Comish, R Kang - PLoS pathogens, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel coronavirus that
has caused a worldwide pandemic of the human respiratory illness COVID-19, resulting in a …

[HTML][HTML] Syrian hamsters as a model of lung injury with SARS-CoV-2 infection: Pathologic, physiologic, and detailed molecular profiling

JS Bednash, VE Kagan, JA Englert, D Farkas… - Translational …, 2022 - Elsevier
The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a common complication of severe COVID-
19 (coronavirus disease 2019) caused by SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome …

A tug-of-war between severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and host antiviral defence: lessons from other pathogenic viruses

SY Fung, KS Yuen, ZW Ye, CP Chan… - Emerging microbes & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT World Health Organization has declared the ongoing outbreak of coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The virus …

Disruption of adaptive immunity enhances disease in SARS-CoV-2-infected Syrian hamsters

RL Brocato, LM Principe, RK Kim, X Zeng… - Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Animal models recapitulating human COVID-19 disease, especially severe disease, are
urgently needed to understand pathogenesis and to evaluate candidate vaccines and …

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in domestic animals and wildlife: advances and prospects in the development of animal models for vaccine and therapeutic …

K Sharun, R Tiwari, SK Patel, K Karthik… - Human Vaccines & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT SARS-CoV-2, which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is
suspected to have been first contracted via animal-human interactions; it has further spread …

[HTML][HTML] A mouse-adapted SARS-CoV-2 induces acute lung injury and mortality in standard laboratory mice

SR Leist, KH Dinnon, A Schäfer, VT Longping, K Okuda… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has caused extreme human suffering and economic harm. We
generated and characterized a new mouse-adapted SARS-CoV-2 virus that captures …

[HTML][HTML] Animal models for COVID-19: advances, gaps and perspectives

C Fan, Y Wu, X Rui, Y Yang, C Ling, S Liu… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, is the most consequential pandemic of this
century. Since the outbreak in late 2019, animal models have been playing crucial roles in …