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Modelling West Nile Virus and Usutu Virus Pathogenicity in Human Neural Stem Cells.
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- Beyond the neuron: the role of glial cells in viral neuropathogenesis.Journal of virology · 2026Review
- Neuropathogenesis of Usutu virus-associated disease in Eurasian blackbirds (Turdus merula) involves apoptosis through the extrinsic pathway.Journal of neurovirology · 2026Article
- Role of extracellular vesicles in the pathogenesis of mosquito-borne flaviviruses that impact public health.Journal of biomedical science · 2025Review
- An equine iPSC-based phenotypic screening platform identifies pro- and anti-viral molecules against West Nile virus.Veterinary research · 2024Article
- Cellular co-infections of West Nile virus and Usutu virus influence virus growth kinetics.Virology journal · 2023Article
- Epidemiology, surveillance and diagnosis of Usutu virus infection in the EU/EEA, 2012 to 2021.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2023Review
- Tendon-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells (TDSCs) as an In Vitro Model for Virological Studies in Wild Birds.Viruses · 2023Article
- Interleukins, Chemokines, and Tumor Necrosis Factor Superfamily Ligands in the Pathogenesis of West Nile Virus Infection.Viruses · 2023Review
- Powassan Virus Induces Structural Changes in Human Neuronal Cells In Vitro and Murine Neurons In Vivo.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- The Interferon Response Dampens the Usutu Virus Infection-Associated Increase in Glycolysis.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022Article
- Using 2D and 3D pluripotent stem cell models to study neurotropic viruses.Frontiers in virology (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Circulating microRNA signatures associated with disease severity and outcome in COVID-19 patients.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Article
- Neural Stem Cells: What Happens When They Go Viral?Viruses · 2021Review
- The central role of Italy in the spatial spread of USUTU virus in Europe.Virus evolution · 2021Article
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
West Nile virus (WNV) and Usutu virus (USUV) are genetically related neurotropic mosquito-borne flaviviruses, which frequently co-circulate in nature. Despite USUV seeming to be less pathogenic for humans than WNV, the clinical manifestations induced by these two viruses often overlap and may evolve to produce severe neurological complications. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of WNV and USUV infection on human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neural stem cells (hNSCs), as a model of the neural progenitor cells in the developing fetal brain and in adult brain. Zika virus (ZIKV), a flavivirus with known tropism for NSCs, was used as the positive control. Infection of hNSCs and viral production, effects on cell viability, apoptosis, and innate antiviral responses were compared among viruses. WNV displayed the highest replication efficiency and cytopathic effects in hNSCs, followed by USUV and then ZIKV. In these cells, both WNV and USUV induced the overexpression of innate antiviral response genes at significantly higher levels than ZIKV. Expression of interferon type I, interleukin-1β and caspase-3 was significantly more elevated in WNV- than USUV-infected hNSCs, in agreement with the higher neuropathogenicity of WNV and the ability to inhibit the interferon response pathway.
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