Communications Biology (Sep 2022)

Spike-based adenovirus vectored COVID-19 vaccine does not aggravate heart damage after ischemic injury in mice

  • Shanshan Gu,
  • Zhongyan Chen,
  • Xiangfu Meng,
  • Ge Liu,
  • He Xu,
  • Liying Huang,
  • Linwei Wu,
  • Jixing Gong,
  • Ding Chen,
  • Bingqing Xue,
  • Lihang Zhu,
  • Zhongjun Wan,
  • Jianqing Lin,
  • Xiaolong Cai,
  • Xiaoyan Zhang,
  • Jia Wang,
  • Donghui Zhang,
  • Nan Cao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03875-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The safety of spike-based adenovirus type-5 vectored COVID-19 vaccine is evaluated, showing it neither affects the survival and function of human cardiac cells and engineered heart tissues nor aggravates heart damage in mice after ischemic injury.