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ArticleScientific reports2021

High-throughput human primary cell-based airway model for evaluating influenza, coronavirus, or other respiratory viruses in vitro.

A L Gard, R J Luu, C R Miller, R Maloney, B P Cain, E E Marr, D M Burns, R Gaibler, T J Mulhern, C A Wong and 11 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

21 authors.

A L GardBioengineering Division, Draper, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
R J LuuBioengineering Division, Draper, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
C R MillerBioengineering Division, Draper, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
R MaloneyBioengineering Division, Draper, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
B P CainBioengineering Division, Draper, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
E E MarrBioengineering Division, Draper, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
D M BurnsBioengineering Division, Draper, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
R GaiblerBioengineering Division, Draper, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
T J MulhernBioengineering Division, Draper, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
C A WongBioengineering Division, Draper, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
J AlladinaDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
J R CoppetaBioengineering Division, Draper, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
P LiuDepartment of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
J P WangDepartment of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
H AzizgolshaniBioengineering Division, Draper, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
R Fennell FezzieBioengineering Division, Draper, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
J L BalestriniBioengineering Division, Draper, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
B C IsenbergBioengineering Division, Draper, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
B D MedoffDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
R W FinbergDepartment of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
J T BorensteinBioengineering Division, Draper, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA. jborenstein@draper.com.

Funding

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency N669911924036
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Influenza and other respiratory viruses present a significant threat to public health, national security, and the world economy, and can lead to the emergence of global pandemics such as from COVID-19. A barrier to the development of effective therapeutics is the absence of a robust and predictive preclinical model, with most studies relying on a combination of in vitro screening with immortalized cell lines and low-throughput animal models. Here, we integrate human primary airway epithelial cells into a custom-engineered 96-device platform (PREDICT96-ALI) in which tissues are cultured in an array of microchannel-based culture chambers at an air-liquid interface, in a configuration compatible with high resolution in-situ imaging and real-time sensing. We apply this platform to influenza A virus and coronavirus infections, evaluating viral infection kinetics and antiviral agent dosing across multiple strains and donor populations of human primary cells. Human coronaviruses HCoV-NL63 and SARS-CoV-2 enter host cells via ACE2 and utilize the protease TMPRSS2 for spike protein priming, and we confirm their expression, demonstrate infection across a range of multiplicities of infection, and evaluate the efficacy of camostat mesylate, a known inhibitor of HCoV-NL63 infection. This new capability can be used to address a major gap in the rapid assessment of therapeutic efficacy of small molecules and antiviral agents against influenza and other respiratory viruses including coronaviruses.

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Antiviral AgentsBronchiCell Culture TechniquesCell LineCoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19COVID-19 Drug TreatmentEquipment DesignHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysHumansInfluenza A virusInfluenza, HumanMicrobial Sensitivity TestsMicrofluidic Analytical TechniquesRespiratory MucosaAntiviral Agents

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PMID34294757
PMCPMC8298517

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