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ReviewBiomedical journal2021

3D culture models to study SARS-CoV-2 infectivity and antiviral candidates: From spheroids to bioprinting.

Bruna A G de Melo, Julia C Benincasa, Elisa M Cruz, Juliana Terzi Maricato, Marimelia A Porcionatto

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Review in Biomedical journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Generation and applications of cardiac spheroids.npj biomedical innovations · 2025
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  7. Peptides fromFuture microbiology · 2025
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  11. Rising role of 3D-printing in delivery of therapeutics for infectious disease.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2024
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  15. Unravelling Pathophysiology of Neurological and Psychiatric Complications of COVID-19 Using Brain Organoids.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2023
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  16. PreclinicalFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023
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  17. An integratedInternational journal of bioprinting · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Bruna A G de MeloDepartment of Biochemistry, Paulista School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Julia C BenincasaDepartment of Biochemistry, Paulista School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Elisa M CruzDepartment of Biochemistry, Paulista School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Juliana Terzi MaricatoDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Paulista School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Marimelia A PorcionattoDepartment of Biochemistry, Paulista School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address: marimelia.porcionatto@unifesp.br.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The pandemic caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is receiving worldwide attention, due to the severity of the disease (COVID-19) that resulted in more than a million global deaths so far. The urgent need for vaccines and antiviral drugs is mobilizing the scientific community to develop strategies for studying the mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 infection, replication kinetics, pathogenesis, host-virus interaction, and infection inhibition. In this work, we review the strategies of tissue engineering in the fabrication of three-dimensional (3D) models used in virology studies, which presented many advantages over conventional cell cultures, such as complex cytoarchitecture and a more physiological microenvironment. Scaffold-free (spheroids and organoids) and scaffold-based (3D scaffolding and 3D bioprinting) approach allow the biofabrication of more realistic models relevant to the pandemic, to be used as in vitro platforms for the development of new vaccines and therapies against COVID-19.

Indexed as

BioprintingSpheroids, CellularAngiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2AnimalsAntiviral AgentsHumansOrganoidsSARS-CoV-2Tissue EngineeringTissue ScaffoldsACE2 protein, humanAngiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2Antiviral Agents3D bioprintingCOVID-19OrganoidsSARS-CoV-2Tissue engineering

Identifiers

PMID33602633
PMCPMC7680063

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