Article
SARS-CoV-2 infection of human neurons requires endosomal cell entry and can be blocked by inhibitors of host phosphoinositol-5 kinase
2022-09-16
Abstract excerpt
COVID-19 is a disease caused by coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In addition to respiratory illness, COVID-19 patients exhibit neurological symptoms that can last from weeks to months (long COVID). It is unclear whether these neurological manifestations are due to infection of brain cells. We found that a small fraction of cortical neurons, but not astrocytes, were naturally susceptible to SARS-CoV-2. Based on the inhibito...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 84c2a900-9b25-5459-b376-438d9d144e61
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.09.14.508057
