Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation.
Cell
; 185(14): 2452-2468.e16, 2022 07 07.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1885669
ABSTRACT
COVID survivors frequently experience lingering neurological symptoms that resemble cancer-therapy-related cognitive impairment, a syndrome for which white matter microglial reactivity and consequent neural dysregulation is central. Here, we explored the neurobiological effects of respiratory SARS-CoV-2 infection and found white-matter-selective microglial reactivity in mice and humans. Following mild respiratory COVID in mice, persistently impaired hippocampal neurogenesis, decreased oligodendrocytes, and myelin loss were evident together with elevated CSF cytokines/chemokines including CCL11. Systemic CCL11 administration specifically caused hippocampal microglial reactivity and impaired neurogenesis. Concordantly, humans with lasting cognitive symptoms post-COVID exhibit elevated CCL11 levels. Compared with SARS-CoV-2, mild respiratory influenza in mice caused similar patterns of white-matter-selective microglial reactivity, oligodendrocyte loss, impaired neurogenesis, and elevated CCL11 at early time points, but after influenza, only elevated CCL11 and hippocampal pathology persisted. These findings illustrate similar neuropathophysiology after cancer therapy and respiratory SARS-CoV-2 infection which may contribute to cognitive impairment following even mild COVID.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Influenza, Human
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COVID-19
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Neoplasms
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Animals
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Cell
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
J.cell.2022.06.008
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