ArticlePloS one2023
Astrocytes derived from neural progenitor cells are susceptible to Zika virus infection.
Article in PloS one, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Reactive oxygen species (ROS) research in drug discovery and drug delivery: Can the medium Be a Trojan Horse disguised as something benign?Journal of enzyme inhibition and medicinal chemistry · 2026Article
- One Stone Two Birds: Novel Fluorescent Probe Chemistry That Detects Redox Stress in Cell Culture.Analytical chemistry · 2026Article
- Beyond the neuron: the role of glial cells in viral neuropathogenesis.Journal of virology · 2026Review
- Advances and applications of brain organoids in central nervous system disorders: Bridging the gap from laboratory to clinic.Neural regeneration research · 2026Article
- A reversible broad-spectrum antiviral targets the human V-ATPase VResearch square · 2026Article
- Targeting Highly Reactive Oxygen Species (hROS) for Prodrug Activation through a Cascade Reaction with Kinetic Tunability (CReKT) to Effect Linker Cleavage.Journal of medicinal chemistry · 2026Article
- The Neuroprotective Effect of 4-Octyl Itaconate on Acute Period of Experimental Autoimmune Neuritis.Inflammation · 2025Article
- Deep Learning-Based Automatic Segmentation and Analysis of Mitochondrial Damage by Zika Virus and SARS-CoV-2.Viruses · 2025Article
- Detection and Analysis of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS): Buffer Components Are Not Bystanders.Analytical chemistry · 2025Article
- Cytomegalovirus Infection Affects the Differentiation and Determines the Functionality of a Human Progenitor Neural Cell Line.Current microbiology · 2025Article
- Epidemic Zika virus strains from the Asian lineage induce an attenuated fetal brain pathogenicity.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Application of diceCT to Study the Development of the Zika Virus-Infected Mouse Brain.Viruses · 2024Article
- Zika Virus Neuropathogenesis-Research and Understanding.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Zika Virus: A Neurotropic Warrior against High-Grade Gliomas-Unveiling Its Potential for Oncolytic Virotherapy.Viruses · 2024Review
- Miniaturization of hiPSC-derived 3D neural cultures in stirred-tank bioreactors for parallelized preclinical assessment of rAAV.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024Article
- Article
- Causes of microcephaly in human-theoretical considerations.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Construction of a Chikungunya Virus, Replicon, and Helper Plasmids for Transfection of Mammalian Cells.Viruses · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Zika virus (ZIKV) was first isolated in 1947. From its isolation until 2007, symptoms of ZIKV-caused disease were limited (e.g., fever, hives, and headache); however, during the epidemic in Brazil in 2014, ZIKV infection caused Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults and microcephaly in fetuses and infants of women infected during pregnancy. The neurovirulence of ZIKV has been studied using neural progenitor cells (NPCs), brain organoids, neurons, and astrocytes. NPCs and astrocytes appear to be the most susceptible cells of the Central Nervous System to ZIKV infection. In this work, we aimed to develop a culture of astrocytes derived from a human NPC cell line. We analyze how ZIKV affects human astrocytes and demonstrate that 1) ZIKV infection reduces cell viability, increases the production of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS), and results in high viral titers; 2) there are changes in the expression of genes that facilitate the entry of the virus into the cells; 3) there are changes in the expression of genes involved in the homeostasis of the glutamatergic system; and 4) there are ultrastructural changes in mitochondria and lipid droplets associated with production of virions. Our findings reveal new evidence of how ZIKV compromises astrocytic functionality, which may help understand the pathophysiology of ZIKV-associated congenital disease.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.