Human organoid models to study SARS-CoV-2 infection

Y Han, L Yang, LA Lacko, S Chen - Nature Methods, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is one of the deadliest pandemics in history. SARS …

Post-COVID-19 syndrome: involvement and interactions between respiratory, cardiovascular and nervous systems

V Visco, C Vitale, A Rispoli, C Izzo, N Virtuoso… - Journal of clinical …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Though the acute effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection have been extensively reported, the long-
term effects are less well described. Specifically, while clinicians endure to battle COVID-19 …

Alterations in microbiota of patients with COVID-19: potential mechanisms and therapeutic interventions

B Wang, L Zhang, Y Wang, T Dai, Z Qin… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is currently ongoing. It is
caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). A high …

Human pluripotent-stem-cell-derived organoids for drug discovery and evaluation

JJ Vandana, C Manrique, LA Lacko, S Chen - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) and three-dimensional organoids have ushered in a
new era for disease modeling and drug discovery. Over the past decade, significant …

[HTML][HTML] Vascular cells improve functionality of human cardiac organoids

HK Voges, SR Foster, L Reynolds, BL Parker… - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Crosstalk between cardiac cells is critical for heart performance. Here we show that vascular
cells within human cardiac organoids (hCOs) enhance their maturation, force of contraction …

Long COVID and hypertension-related disorders: a report from the Japanese Society of Hypertension Project Team on COVID-19

C Matsumoto, S Shibata, T Kishi, S Morimoto… - Hypertension …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstracts The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) affects infected patients even after the
acute phase and impairs their health and quality of life by causing a wide variety of …

SARS-CoV-2 spike protein induces paracrine senescence and leukocyte adhesion in endothelial cells

K Meyer, T Patra, Vijayamahantesh, R Ray - Journal of virology, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Increased mortality in COVID-19 cases is often associated with microvascular complications.
We have recently shown that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV …

BRD2 inhibition blocks SARS-CoV-2 infection by reducing transcription of the host cell receptor ACE2

AJ Samelson, QD Tran, R Robinot, L Carrau… - Nature cell …, 2022 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 infection of human cells is initiated by the binding of the viral Spike protein to
its cell-surface receptor ACE2. We conducted a targeted CRISPRi screen to uncover …

Enhanced metanephric specification to functional proximal tubule enables toxicity screening and infectious disease modelling in kidney organoids

JM Vanslambrouck, SB Wilson, KS Tan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
While pluripotent stem cell-derived kidney organoids are now being used to model renal
disease, the proximal nephron remains immature with limited evidence for key functional …

Human engineered heart tissue models for disease modeling and drug discovery

H Tani, S Tohyama - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The emergence of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) and efficient
differentiation of hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) induced from diseased …