Communications Biology (Aug 2022)

Modeling SARS-CoV-2 and influenza infections and antiviral treatments in human lung epithelial tissue equivalents

  • Hoda Zarkoob,
  • Anna Allué-Guardia,
  • Yu-Chi Chen,
  • Andreu Garcia-Vilanova,
  • Olive Jung,
  • Steven Coon,
  • Min Jae Song,
  • Jun-Gyu Park,
  • Fatai Oladunni,
  • Jesse Miller,
  • Yen-Ting Tung,
  • Ivan Kosik,
  • David Schultz,
  • James Iben,
  • Tianwei Li,
  • Jiaqi Fu,
  • Forbes D. Porter,
  • Jonathan Yewdell,
  • Luis Martinez-Sobrido,
  • Sara Cherry,
  • Jordi B. Torrelles,
  • Marc Ferrer,
  • Emily M. Lee

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03753-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Human alveolar and tracheobronchial epithelial air liquid interface (ALI) tissues are used as models to examine cellular responses to SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A virus infections and as antiviral drug screening assay platforms.