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ArticleiScience2023

Human iPS cell-derived sensory neurons can be infected by SARS-CoV-2.

Anthony Flamier, Punam Bisht, Alexsia Richards, Danielle L Tomasello, Rudolf Jaenisch

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Article in iScience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anthony FlamierWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Punam BishtWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Alexsia RichardsWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Danielle L TomaselloWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Rudolf JaenischWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research · US

Funding

The impact of HIV viral diversity and cellular immunity on HIV pathogenesisP30AI060354 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI ARTHUR Y KIM · 2004 to 2026
$94.4M
Virology Core: MIT Center for Human Tissue Models for Infectious Diseases (MIT.HTMID)U19AI131135 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI GEHRKE, LEE · 2017 to 2021
$8.7M
Transcriptional condensates, epigenetic editing and Rett SyndromeR01MH104610 · NIMH · WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI JAENISCH, RUDOLF, YOUNG, RICHARD · 2014 to 2023
$7.4M
NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI060354NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI131135NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH104610
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19 has impacted billions of people since 2019 and unfolded a major healthcare crisis. With an increasing number of deaths and the emergence of more transmissible variants, it is crucial to better understand the biology of the disease-causing virus, the SARS-CoV-2. Peripheral neuropathies appeared as a specific COVID-19 symptom occurring at later stages of the disease. In order to understand the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on the peripheral nervous system, we generated human sensory neurons from induced pluripotent stem cells that we infected with the SARS-CoV-2 strain WA1/2020 and the variants delta and omicron. Using single-cell RNA sequencing, we found that human sensory neurons can be infected by SARS-CoV-2 but are unable to produce infectious viruses. Our data indicate that sensory neurons can be infected by the original WA1/2020 strain of SARS-CoV-2 as well as the delta and omicron variants, yet infectability differs between the original strain and the variants.

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Cellular neuroscienceNeuroscienceVirology

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PMID37680484
PMCPMC10480666
OpenAlexW4385973278

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