Fatal neurodissemination and SARS-CoV-2 tropism in K18-hACE2 mice is only partially dependent on hACE2 expression

M Carossino, D Kenney, AK O'Connell, P Montanaro… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
… Here, we determined that K18-hACE2 transgenic mice show a significant upregulation in …
spatiotemporal analysis of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the K18-hACE2 transgenic murine model …

Animal models of COVID-19: transgenic mouse model

JG Park, PA Pino, A Akhter, X Alvarez… - SARS-CoV-2: Methods …, 2022 - Springer
… Moreover, K18 hACE2 transgenic mice represent an … and/or treatment of SARS-CoV-2
infection, including recently … K18 hACE2 transgenic mouse model for SARS-CoV-2 infection. …

Generation of a transgenic mouse model of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection and disease

AS Agrawal, T Garron, X Tao, BH Peng… - Journal of …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
… For a pilot study, we infected in two Tg + mice of different genetic backgrounds obtained … ,
we succeeded in establishing a transgenic mouse model for MERS-CoV infection and disease. …

[HTML][HTML] A recombinant receptor-binding domain of MERS-CoV in trimeric form protects human dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (hDPP4) transgenic mice from MERS-CoV …

W Tai, G Zhao, S Sun, Y Guo, Y Wang, X Tao… - Virology, 2016 - Elsevier
… in a complete inhibition of MERS pseudovirus infection (E and G) or MERS-CoV-induced
CPE (F) in at least 50% of the wells (NT 50 ). Mouse sera from 2 and 6 months were used for …

[HTML][HTML] Combination therapy with nirmatrelvir and molnupiravir improves the survival of SARS-CoV-2 infected mice

JH Jeong, S Chokkakula, SC Min, BK Kim, WS Choi… - Antiviral research, 2022 - Elsevier
… Therefore, we performed an in vivo study using a SARS-CoV-2 infected hACE2 transgenic
mouse model and evaluated the potential efficacy of the drugs NTV, RDV and MPV and their …

Heterogeneous infectivity and pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 variants beta, delta and omicron in transgenic K18-hACE2 and wildtype mice

F Tarrés-Freixas, B Trinité, A Pons-Grífols… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… The resistance of WT mice to ancestral SARS-CoV-2 infection made transgenic hACE2 mice
one of … Considering the survival rate, 2 out of 16 B.1-infected transgenic mice met humane …

Neuroinvasion and neurotropism by SARS-CoV-2 variants in the K18-hACE2 mouse

F Seehusen, JJ Clark, P Sharma, EG Bentley, A Kirby… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
… Using transgenic mice expressing human angiotensin-… Many of the SARS-CoV-2 antigen
positive neurons of mice in … of virus entry via the olfactory bulb, as confirmed in both mice [42…

Structural and functional modelling of SARS-CoV-2 entry in animal models

GN Brooke, F Prischi - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
… and small molecules targeting the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein interaction with ACE2. Since
transgenic animal models expressing human ACE2, such as the hACE2 transgenic mouse, …

Mouse models for the study of SARS-CoV-2 infection

AC Knight, SA Montgomery, CA Fletcher… - Comparative …, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
… groups have developed mice transgenic for the human SARS-CoV or MERSCoV receptors,
… K18-hACE2 transgenic mouse has also been used to study SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis and …

Cutting edge: mouse SARS-CoV-2 epitope reveals infection and vaccine-elicited CD8 T cell responses

V Joag, S Wijeyesinghe, JM Stolley… - The Journal of …, 2021 - journals.aai.org
… Whereas many COVID-19 vaccines focus on … mice, we identified a dominant CD8 T cell
SARS-CoV-2 nucleoprotein epitope. Infection of human ACE2 transgenic mice with SARS-CoV-2