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ReviewStem cell reports2021

Neurotropic Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Modeled by the Human Brain Organoids.

Anand Ramani, Abida-Islam Pranty, Jay Gopalakrishnan

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Review in Stem cell reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. iPSC-derived human cortical organoids display profound alterations of cellular homeostasis following SARS-CoV-2 infection and Spike protein exposure.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025
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  14. Effects of COVID-19 on children with autism.World journal of virology · 2022
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  15. In SARS-CoV-2, astrocytes are in it for the long haul.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Anand RamaniInstitute of Human Genetics, Universitätsklinikum Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universität Street 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
Abida-Islam PrantyInstitute of Human Genetics, Universitätsklinikum Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universität Street 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
Jay GopalakrishnanInstitute of Human Genetics, Universitätsklinikum Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universität Street 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany. Electronic address: jay.gopalakrishnan@hhu.de.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, is a socioeconomic burden, which exhibits respiratory illness along with unexpected neurological complications. Concerns have been raised about whether the observed neurological symptoms are due to direct effects on CNS or associated with the virus's systemic effect. Recent SARS-CoV-2 infection studies using human brain organoids revealed that SARS-CoV-2 targets human neurons. Human brain organoids are stem cell-derived reductionist experimental systems that have highlighted the neurotropic effects of SARS-CoV-2. Here, we summarize the neurotoxic effects of SARS-CoV-2 using brain organoids and comprehensively discuss how brain organoids could further improve our understanding when they are fine-tuned.

Indexed as

BrainCOVID-19HumansNeuronsOrganoidsSARS-CoV-2Stem CellsCOVID-19human brain organoidsSARS-CoV-2tauopathy

Identifiers

PMID33631123
PMCPMC7879157

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