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ArticleGenetics and molecular biology2020

Human induced pluripotent stem cells as a tool for disease modeling and drug screening for COVID-19.

Patricia Nolasco, Juliana Borsoi, Carolina Borsoi Moraes, Lucio H Freitas-Junior, Lygia Veiga Pereira

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Article in Genetics and molecular biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Recent Advances of COVID-19 Modeling Based on Regenerative Medicine.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Patricia NolascoUniversidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Laboratório Nacional de Células-tronco Embrionárias (LaNCE), São Paulo, SP, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8171-2074
Juliana BorsoiUniversidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Laboratório Nacional de Células-tronco Embrionárias (LaNCE), São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Carolina Borsoi MoraesUniversidade Federal de São Paulo, Departamento de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Diadema, SP, Brazil.
Lucio H Freitas-JuniorUniversidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Departamento de Microbiologia, Phenotypic Screening Platform, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Lygia Veiga PereiraUniversidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Laboratório Nacional de Células-tronco Embrionárias (LaNCE), São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Universidade de Brasília · BRInstituto de Ciências Farmacêuticas · BRUniversidade de São Paulo · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergence of the new corona virus (SARS-CoV-2) and the resulting COVID-19 pandemic requires fast development of novel prevention and therapeutic strategies. These rely on understanding the biology of the virus and its interaction with the host, and on agnostic phenotypic screening for compounds that prevent viral infection. In vitro screenings of compounds are usually performed in human or animal-derived tumor or immortalized cell lines due to their ease of culturing. However, these platforms may not represent the tissues affected by the disease in vivo, and therefore better models are needed to validate and expedite drug development, especially in face of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this scenario, human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are a powerful research tool due to their ability to generate normal differentiated cell types relevant for the disease. Here we discuss the different ways hiPSCs can contribute to COVID-19 related research, including modeling the disease in vitro and serving as a platform for drug screening.

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