SARS-CoV-2 infection of human ACE2-transgenic mice causes severe lung inflammation and impaired function

ES Winkler, AL Bailey, NM Kafai, S Nair… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Although animal models have been evaluated for severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, none have fully recapitulated the lung disease …

[PDF][PDF] A SARS-CoV-2 infection model in mice demonstrates protection by neutralizing antibodies

AO Hassan, JB Case, ES Winkler, LB Thackray… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a pandemic
with millions of human infections. One limitation to the evaluation of potential therapies and …

SARS-CoV-2 infection in K18-ACE2 transgenic mice replicates human pulmonary disease in COVID-19

VM Arce, JA Costoya - Cellular & Molecular Immunology, 2021 - nature.com
Over the last several months, a global pandemic has developed due to the emergence of the
novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which is capable of …

SARS-CoV-2 causes lung infection without severe disease in human ACE2 knock-in mice

ES Winkler, RE Chen, F Alam, S Yildiz, JB Case… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The development of mouse models for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has enabled
testing of vaccines and therapeutics and defining aspects of severe acute respiratory …

Lethality of SARS-CoV-2 infection in K18 human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 transgenic mice

FS Oladunni, JG Park, PA Pino, O Gonzalez… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Vaccine and antiviral development against SARS-CoV-2 infection or COVID-19 disease
would benefit from validated small animal models. Here, we show that transgenic mice …

The K18-human ACE2 transgenic mouse model recapitulates non-severe and severe COVID-19 in response to an infectious dose of the SARS-CoV-2 virus

W Dong, H Mead, L Tian, JG Park, JI Garcia… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT A comprehensive analysis and characterization of a severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection model that mimics non-severe and severe …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of K18-hACE2 mice as a model of SARS-CoV-2 infection

GB Moreau, SL Burgess, JM Sturek… - The American journal …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Murine models of SARS-CoV-2 infection are critical for elucidating the biological pathways
underlying COVID-19. Because human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is the …

ACE2 is the critical in vivo receptor for SARS-CoV-2 in a novel COVID-19 mouse model with TNF-and IFNγ-driven immunopathology

R Gawish, P Starkl, L Pimenov, A Hladik, K Lakovits… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Despite tremendous progress in the understanding of COVID-19, mechanistic insight into
immunological, disease-driving factors remains limited. We generated maVie16, a …

Lung expression of human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 sensitizes the mouse to SARS-CoV-2 infection

K Han, RV Blair, N Iwanaga, F Liu… - American journal of …, 2021 - atsjournals.org
Preclinical mouse models that recapitulate some characteristics of coronavirus disease
(COVID-19) will facilitate focused study of pathogenesis and virus–host responses. Human …

[PDF][PDF] SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 is an interferon-stimulated gene in human airway epithelial cells and is detected in specific cell subsets across tissues

CGK Ziegler, SJ Allon, SK Nyquist, IM Mbano, VN Miao… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
There is pressing urgency to understand the pathogenesis of the severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus clade 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes the disease COVID-19. SARS …