Sun Jie, Harish Narasimhan, In Su Cheon, Wei Qian, Shengen Hu, Tanyalak Parimon, Chaofan Li, Nicholas Goplen, Yue Wu, Xiaoqin Wei, Young Min Son, Elizabeth Fink, Gislane Santos, Jinyi Tang, Changfu Yao, Lyndsey Muehling, Glenda Canderan, Alexandra Kadl, Abigail Cannon, Samuel Young, Riley Hannan, Grace Bingham, Mohammad Arish, Arka Sen Chaudhari, Jeffrey Sturek, Patcharin Pramoonjago, Yun Shim, Judith Woodfolk, Chongzhi Zang, Peter Chen
The long-term physiological consequences of SARS-CoV-2, termed Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), are rapidly evolving into a major public health concern. The underlying cellular and molecular etiology remain poorly defined but growing evidence links PASC to abnormal immune responses and/or poor organ recovery post-infection. Yet, the precise mechanisms driving non-resolving inflammation and impaired tissue repair in the context of PASC remain unclear. With insights from three independent clinical cohorts of PASC patients with abnormal lung function and/or viral infection-mediated pulmonary fibrosis, we established a clinically relevant mouse model of post-viral lung sequelae to investigate the pathophysiology of respiratory PASC...
November 28, 2023: Research Square