
Mammalian Genome, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: Feb. 22, 2025
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is not limited to the respiratory tract as receptors, including angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), are expressed across many tissues. This study employed a new conditional mouse model, Rosa26creERT2/chACE2, which expresses human ACE2 (hACE2) multiple organs, investigate effects of SARS-CoV-2 beyond system. strain demonstrated susceptibility in dose and sex-dependent manner, showing that infected male mice exhibited more severe disease outcomes, significant weight loss, pronounced lung pathology dysfunction, increased mortality, compared females. In contrast intratracheal infection, intranasal virus administration facilitated viral spread brain, thereby underscoring nasal route's role pathogenesis neurological manifestations. Intranasal also led innate immune system activation administration, even though both routes activated adaptive response. model provides valuable tool individual tissues or use multisystemic approach, it advances possibilities for preclinical evaluation antiviral therapies vaccine strategies.
Language: Английский