Developmentally induced microencephalopathy in guinea pigs ‐embryonic glial cell activation marks selective neuronal death

2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffen Roßner ◽  
Martina K. Brückner ◽  
Volker Bigl
2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung Joong Lee ◽  
Jun Young Oh ◽  
Woo-Hyun Cho ◽  
Barcelon Ellane ◽  
Kwang Hwan Kim ◽  
...  

Abstract Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is accompanied by chronic neurological sequelae such as cognitive decline and mood disorder, but the underlying mechanisms have not yet been elucidated. In this study, we explored the possibility that the brain-infiltrating SARS-CoV-2 spike protein contributes to the development of neurological symptoms observed in COVID-19 patients. Our behavioral study showed that administration of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein S1 subunit (S1 protein) to mouse hippocampus induced cognitive deficit and anxiety-like behavior in vivo. These neurological symptoms were accompanied by neuronal cell death in the dorsal and ventral hippocampus as well as glial cell activation. Interestingly, the S1 protein did not directly induce hippocampal cell death in vitro. Rather, it exerted neurotoxicity via glial cell activation, partially through interleukin-1β induction. In conclusion, our data suggest a novel pathogenic mechanism for the COVID-19-associated neurological symptoms that involves glia activation and non-cell autonomous hippocampal neuronal death by the brain-infiltrating S1 protein.


2008 ◽  
Vol 431 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chanhee Park ◽  
Ik-Hyun Cho ◽  
Donghoon Kim ◽  
Eun-Kyeong Jo ◽  
Se-Young Choi ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 100034 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscila G.C. Almeida ◽  
João Victor Nani ◽  
Jean Pierre Oses ◽  
Elisa Brietzke ◽  
Mirian A.F. Hayashi

2016 ◽  
Vol 139 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Katnik ◽  
Angela Garcia ◽  
Adam A. Behensky ◽  
Ilya E. Yasny ◽  
Alex M. Shuster ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Yanguas-Casás ◽  
M Barreda-Manso ◽  
Manuel Nieto-Sampedro ◽  
Lorenzo Romero-Ramírez

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 6237-6249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Esser ◽  
Larissa Göpfrich ◽  
Kai Bihler ◽  
Eugenia Kress ◽  
Stella Nyamoya ◽  
...  

Neuroreport ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (13) ◽  
pp. 1075-1083 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying-Li Zhu ◽  
Meng-Fei Sun ◽  
Xue-Bing Jia ◽  
Pei-Hao Zhang ◽  
Yi-Da Xu ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Coughlin ◽  
Yuchuan Wang ◽  
Il Minn ◽  
Nicholas Bienko ◽  
Emily B. Ambinder ◽  
...  

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