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ArticleEmerging microbes & infections2021

Single-cell analysis of arthritogenic alphavirus-infected human synovial fibroblasts links low abundance of viral RNA to induction of innate immunity and arthralgia-associated gene expression.

Fabian Pott, Dylan Postmus, Richard J P Brown, Emanuel Wyler, Elena Neumann, Markus Landthaler, Christine Goffinet

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Article in Emerging microbes & infections, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Fabian PottInstitute of Virology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3700-1691
Dylan PostmusInstitute of Virology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Richard J P BrownDivision of Veterinary Medicine, Paul Ehrlich Institute, Langen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3292-6671
Emanuel WylerMax-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB), Berlin, Germany.
Elena NeumannInternal Medicine and Rheumatology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Bad Nauheim, Germany.
Markus LandthalerMax-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB), Berlin, Germany.
Christine GoffinetInstitute of Virology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3959-004X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infection by (re-)emerging RNA arboviruses including Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and Mayaro virus primarily cause acute febrile disease and transient polyarthralgia. However, in a significant subset of infected individuals, debilitating arthralgia persists for weeks over months up to years. The underlying immunopathogenesis of chronification of arthralgia upon primary RNA-viral infection remains unclear. Here, we analysed cell-intrinsic responses to

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Immunity, InnateArbovirusesArbovirus InfectionsArthralgiaCells, CulturedFibroblastsHumansRNA, ViralSingle-Cell AnalysisSynovial FluidVirus ReplicationRNA, ViralChikungunyafibroblastsinnate immunityRNA-seqtranscriptomics

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PMID34723780
PMCPMC8604527

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