Comparison of infection and human immune responses of two SARS-CoV-2 strains in a humanized AdV-hACE2 NIKO mouse model

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has sickened millions, cost lives and has devastated the global economy. Various animal models for experimental infection with SARS-CoV-2 have played a key role in many aspects of COVID-19 research. Here, we describe a humanized AdV-hACE2 NOD-SCID IL2Rγ-/- (NIKO) mouse model and compared infection with ancestral and mutant (SARS-CoV-2-∆382) strains of SARS-CoV-2. Immune cell infiltration, inflammation, lung damage and pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines was observed in humanized AdV-hACE2 NIKO mice. Humanized AdV-hACE2 NIKO mice infected with the WT and mutant SARS-CoV-2 strain had lung inflammation and production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines. This model can aid in examining the pathological basis of SARS-CoV-2 infection in a human immune environment and evaluation of therapeutic interventions..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

ResearchSquare.com - (2023) vom: 17. Okt. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yong, Kylie Su Mei [VerfasserIn]
Anderson, Danielle E [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Adrian Kang Eng [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Min [VerfasserIn]
Tan, Sue Yee [VerfasserIn]
Tan, Wilson Wei Sheng [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Qingfeng [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Lin-Fa [VerfasserIn]

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570
Biology

doi:

10.21203/rs.3.rs-2672493/v1

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

XRA039123960