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Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation
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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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Mild respiratory SARS-CoV-2 infection in mice caused persistent white-matter-selective microglial reactivity, elevated CSF cytokines/chemokines including CCL11, impaired hippocampal neurogenesis, oligodendrocyte loss, and myelin loss. Similar white-matter microglial reactivity was seen in human post-COVID brain samples, and elevated plasma CCL11 was associated with cognitive symptoms in long COVID.
Key findings
- Mild respiratory COVID mice showed no weight loss or sickness behavior and no virus detected in brain, but had elevated serum and CSF cytokines/chemokines at 7 days and 7 weeks post-infection; CSF CCL11 was further increased at 7 weeks versus 7 days, while serum CCL11 normalized by 7 weeks.
- White-matter-selective microglial/macrophage reactivity (IBA1+CD68+) occurred in subcortical white matter and hippocampal white matter at 7 days and persisted to 7 weeks, without comparable reactivity in cortical gray matter; human COVID brain samples also showed elevated CD68+ microglial/macrophage reactivity in subcortical white matter (n = 9 COVID vs. 9 non-COVID controls).
- Hippocampal neurogenesis was decreased at 7 days and 7 weeks post-infection; mature oligodendrocytes were depleted by approximately one third at 7 days and remained depleted at 7 weeks, with a mild (~10%) decrease in oligodendrocyte precursor cells at 7 weeks and decreased myelinated axon density at 7 days and 7 weeks.
- In humans with long COVID, plasma CCL11 was elevated in those with cognitive symptoms (“brain fog”; n = 48) compared with those without cognitive symptoms (n = 15); systemic CCL11 administration in mice induced hippocampal microglial/macrophage reactivity and decreased hippocampal neurogenesis.
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- Mouse models: 6- to 12-week-old female CD1 and BALB/c mice; mild respiratory SARS-CoV-2 via intratracheal AAV-hACE2 followed by intranasal SARS-CoV-2; comparison H1N1 influenza; systemic CCL11 administration (10 μg/kg intraperitoneally four times over 10 days); methotrexate chemotherapy model for myelin comparison.
- Human samples: postmortem brain cortex and subcortical white matter from 9 SARS-CoV-2-positive individuals (7 male, 2 female, age 24–73) and 9 non-COVID controls (9 male, age 43–84); plasma from long-COVID subjects with brain fog (n = 48, 16 male/32 female, mean age 46.1 ± 14.6 years) and without cognitive symptoms (n = 15, 4 male/11 female, mean age 46.7 ± 14.1 years).
- Analyses: immunohistochemistry and confocal quantification for microglia, neuroblasts, oligodendrocytes, OPCs, and neurons; electron microscopy for myelinated axon density and g-ratio; Luminex cytokine/chemokine assays; single-cell RNA sequencing of cortical and white matter microglia (5,983 microglial cells from mild COVID mice and 5,967 from control mice); statistics included t tests, ANOVA, multiple linear regression, and scRNA-seq differential expression/abundance testing.
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- Stated: the study used the original SARS-CoV-2 strain in adulthood without vaccination; effects of newer variants, breakthrough infection in vaccinated individuals, childhood, and old age remain to be determined.
- Stated: single-cell transcriptomics did not contain sufficient cells to draw conclusions about astrocytes or cell types other than microglia; microglial gene expression changes require spatial validation and functional testing; whether astrocyte-mediated neurotoxicity occurs after mild respiratory COVID remains unknown.
- Stated: mice were not behaviorally assessed for cognition, and the intermittent systemic CCL11 paradigm may not reflect higher or more consistent CCL11 levels; evident from the text: the human postmortem COVID cases died for reasons related to or possibly related to COVID and cannot be considered “mild,” and BSL-3 constraints limited further behavioral assessments.
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“At 7 days post-infection, elevated CSF cytokines and chemokines include IFN-γ, IL6, TNF-α, CXCL10, CCL7, CCL2, CCL11, GMCSF, and BAFF, among others (Figures 1F and 1H; Table S1).”
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“Notably, CSF levels of CCL11, a chemokine associated with cognitive impairment in aging (Villeda et al., 2011), were further increased at 7 weeks compared with 7 days post-infection (Figures 1J and 1K; Table S1).”
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“No virus was detected in brain (Figure 1C), unlike in the case of a neuroinvasive model (Song et al., 2021) of SARS-CoV-2 infection (Figure S1 A).”
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“As expected, SARS-CoV-2 was present in the lungs of infected mice, and lung histopathology demonstrated minimal interstitial infiltrates without evidence of alveolar damage (Figures S1B and S1C).”
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“As expected, SARS-CoV-2 was present in the lungs of infected mice, and lung histopathology demonstrated minimal interstitial infiltrates without evidence of alveolar damage (Figures S1B and S1C).”
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“As hypothesized, we found increased microglial/macrophage reactivity in subcortical white matter, as assessed by IBA1 and CD68 co-positivity (Figure 2 ).”
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“Despite the lack of evident symptoms/signs of illness in this respiratory infection model, we found prominently elevated cytokine profiles in serum and in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) at 7-day and 7-week time points following respiratory infection (Figures 1D–1G).”
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“In the same mice, serum CCL11 levels were elevated at 7 days post-infection and—in contrast to persistent elevation in CSF—normalized in serum by 7 weeks post-infection (Figures 1D, 1E, S6C, and S6D; Table S1).”
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“Systemic CCL11 induced microglial/macrophage reactivity specifically in hippocampal white matter (Figures 5F and 5G), and not in the cortex or subcortical white matter (Figures 5D and 5E).”
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“We also found transcriptional changes within the homeostatic microglia cluster in post-COVID mice compared with controls, with increased expression of genes commonly upregulated in inflammation and involved in antigen processing and presentation, like B2m, H2-D1, H2-K1, as well as the cell surface glycoprotein Cd300lf (Figures 3D, 3E, and S4C).”
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“Of these, CXCL10, CCL7, CCL2, CCL11, and GMCSF remain elevated, and IL10 and CCL5 become elevated in CSF by 7 weeks post-infection (Figures 1G and 1I; Table S1).”
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“Mice exhibit no weight loss (Figure 1B) or observable sickness behavior; the challenges of working with a biosafety level-3 mouse model limited the feasibility of further behavioral assessments.”
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“This pattern of white-matter-specific microglial/macrophage reactivity was evident in two different mouse strains (CD1 and BALB/c) at 7 days post-infection (Figures 2A–2C) and persisted to 7 weeks post-infection (Figures 2D–2F).”
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“However, in contrast to most cases available for brain tissue examination, these individuals did not die during hospitalization and did not exhibit fulminant pulmonary disease (Figures S3B–S3E ; Table S2).”
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“We found a high degree of overlap between the upregulated and downregulated genes from both the chemokine and altered homeostatic gene signatures and the other microglial states, with both signatures in post-COVID microglia showing the greatest similarity to the WAM and DAM states (Figures 3F, 3G, and S4F).”
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“These variables did not interact with one another, suggesting each was an independent predictor of CCL11 levels.”
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“Concordantly, we find here that even mild respiratory COVID can induce prominent elevation of multiple cytokines and chemokines together with lasting reactivity of white matter microglia in subcortical and hippocampal regions.”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Discussion
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“By 7 weeks after influenza infection, the only chemokine that remained elevated—and in fact increased from the 7 day time point—is CCL11 (Figures 7E–7G).”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Results > Comparison to H1N1 influenza mild respiratory infection
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“Concordant with this pattern of microglial/macrophage reactivity, oligodendrocytes were decreased in the subcortical white matter at 7 days (Figure 7L) but recovered as microglial reactivity resolved by 7 weeks (Figure 7M).”
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“However, the oligodendroglial deficits observed in this study were more persistent following COVID than H1N1 influenza and were concordant with the lasting changes that follow methotrexate chemotherapy.”
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“Examination of CSF cytokines at 7 days revealed elevation in several cytokines/chemokines similar to mice with mild respiratory COVID, including IFN-γ, CCL11, CCL2, and GMCSF, as well as distinct elevations in IL4 and CCL5 (Figure 7G).”
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“A small number of putative microglia or doublets clustered together with the erythrocyte and pericyte clusters, resulting in expression of some microglia markers like Tmem119 and P2ry12 in these clusters (Figure S5 G)–these few cells were excluded from downstream analysis as outliers.”
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“The merged cluster was labeled Homeostatic due to its higher expression of typical microglia marker genes and lower expression of inflammation-related genes.”
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“Note that while some non-microglial clusters appear to express the microglia-specific markers Tmem119 and P2ry12, this is driven by a small number of outlier microglia which clustered with these non-microglial cell types.”
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“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.”
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“The syndrome of cognitive symptoms that COVID survivors frequently experience closely resembles the syndrome of cancer-therapy-related cognitive impairment (CRCI; Wefel et al., 2015), commonly known as “chemo fog.” Neuroinflammation is central to the pathophysiology of CRCI (for review, see Gibson and Monje [2021]), raising the possibility of shared pathophysiological mechanisms.”
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“Colloquially known as “COVID fog,” this syndrome of COVID-associated cognitive impairment is characterized by impaired attention, concentration, speed of information processing, memory, and executive function (Becker et al., 2021; Nasserie et al., 2021).”
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“Neuroinflammation is central to the pathophysiology of CRCI (for review, see Gibson and Monje [2021]), raising the possibility of shared pathophysiological mechanisms.”
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“Elevated circulating cytokine/chemokine levels, particularly CCL11, can also limit neurogenesis and contribute to cognitive impairment (Villeda et al., 2011).”
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“A distinct subpopulation of microglia that reside in white matter (Hammond et al., 2019) are selectively activated by systemic insults such as exposure to the chemotherapy drug methotrexate (Gibson et al., 2019).”
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“Neurological symptoms are emerging as relatively common sequelae, with persistent cognitive impairment affecting approximately one in four COVID survivors (Nasserie et al., 2021).”
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“In addition to these direct effects of inflammatory mediators on cellular plasticity in the brain, microglia also induce neurotoxic astrocyte reactivity through cytokine signaling (Liddelow et al., 2017).”
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“To test the effects of mild COVID, we used a mouse model of mild SARS-CoV-2 infection limited to the respiratory system that clears within 1 week (Israelow et al., 2020; Song et al., 2021).”
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“This complex cellular dysregulation is thought to contribute importantly to cognitive impairment, and anti-inflammatory strategies correct this multicellular dysregulation and rescue cognition in disease states such as those occurring after exposure to neurotoxic cancer therapies (Geraghty et al., 2019; Gibson et al., 2019; Monje et al., 2003) and in aging (Villeda et al., 2011).”
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“Mice exhibit no weight loss (Figure 1B) or observable sickness behavior; the challenges of working with a biosafety level-3 mouse model limited the feasibility of further behavioral assessments.”
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“While severe COVID can cause multi-organ disease and numerous potential mechanisms affecting the nervous system (Lee et al., 2021; Nath and Smith, 2021; Remsik et al., 2021; Chen et al., 2021), even mild COVID could result in a detrimental neuroinflammatory response, including reactivity of these exquisitely sensitive white matter microglia.”
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“Additionally, this sub-state of reactive astrocytes are poor supporters of synaptic connections—further adding to network dysfunction (Liddelow et al., 2017).”
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“Astrocytes can assume a range of reactive states (Hasel et al., 2021; Sadick et al., 2022) that can induce further pathophysiology, with certain states of reactive astrocytes inducing oligodendrocyte and neuronal cell death (Liddelow et al., 2017; Guttenplan et al., 2021).”
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“Such persistent loss of myelin in subcortical projections would be predicted to impair neural circuit function and axon health”
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“By comparison, H1N1 influenza elicited a partially overlapping but also distinct CSF cytokine/chemokine profile and more restricted pattern of persistent cellular changes.”
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“adding to the numerous deleterious neurobiological consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection.”
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“The H1N1 strain of influenza, which is not neuroinvasive in mouse models, causes acute elevation in CNS cytokines, hippocampal microglial reactivity, and impaired performance in cognitive behavioral tests (Hosseini et al., 2018; Jurgens et al., 2012).”
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“Other viral syndromes such as influenza can cause microglial reactivity, elevated CNS cytokine levels, and impair cognitive function, even in the absence of neuroinvasion (Hosseini et al., 2018; Jurgens et al., 2012).”
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“The differences in neuroinflammatory profiles observed here in mouse models of SARS-CoV-2 and H1N1 influenza respiratory infection underscore this principle.”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Discussion
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“In comparison to SARS-CoV-2, mild respiratory infection with H1N1 influenza results in similar hippocampal pathology, but without the lasting effects on subcortical white matter integrity seen after respiratory COVID.”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Results > Comparison to H1N1 influenza mild respiratory infection
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“People recovering from critical illness in general experience high rates of long-term cognitive impairment, and persistent cognitive impairment is an important component of post-intensive care syndrome (PICS; Pandharipande et al., 2013).”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Pandharipande et al., 2013 source
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“Systemic exposure of rats to low levels of bacterial liposaccharide (LPS)—sufficient to cause mild-moderate sickness behavior but not sepsis—similarly causes microglial reactivity and impairment in hippocampal neurogenesis (Monje et al., 2003).”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Monje et al., 2003 source
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“a finding that is consistent with the persistently elevated CSF CCL11 levels (Figure 7F), which we demonstrate above specifically increases reactivity of hippocampal microglia/macrophages (Figures 5F and 5G).”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Results > Comparison to H1N1 influenza mild respiratory infection
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“The particularly immunogenic nature of SARS-CoV-2 (Lucas et al., 2020) and the persistence of the neuroinflammatory changes observed here, together with the magnitude of the population infected during this pandemic, contribute to the emerging crisis of lasting cognitive impairment associated with COVID.”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Lucas et al., 2020 source
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- Rests on an assumption: The magnitude of the population infected during the COVID-19 pandemic is large.
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“Here, we studied the neurobiological consequences of respiratory system infection in adulthood with the original strain of SARS-CoV-2 in the absence of vaccination.”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Discussion > Limitations of the study
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“Elevated levels of CCL11 found in mice after respiratory infection with either SARS-CoV-2 or H1N1 influenza, and in humans with cognitive symptoms after COVID, can cause deficient hippocampal neurogenesis as shown here and previously (Villeda et al., 2011), and induces microglial reactivity specifically in the hippocampus.”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Villeda et al., 2011 source
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- Rests on an assumption: The mouse model of mild respiratory SARS-CoV-2 infection recapitulates key features of mild respiratory COVID in humans.
- Rests on an assumption: The human long-COVID blood samples are representative of cognitive symptoms after COVID.
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“Consistent with the clinical similarities in the “COVID fog” and “chemo fog” syndromes of cognitive impairment, the findings here illustrate numerous pathophysiological similarities including depletion of myelinating oligodendrocytes and myelin loss.”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Discussion
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“It is thus not surprising that the neurological sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection are proving to be both common and debilitating (Nasserie et al., 2021; Mazza et al., 2021; Qureshi et al., 2022; Becker et al., 2021; Tabacof et al., 2022).”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Discussion
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“While the inflammation-induced multicellular dysregulation described here may be potentially reversible with therapeutic interventions as discussed below, these more severe possible complications of COVID such as stroke can cause irreversible damage to the brain.”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Discussion
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“In the context of severe COVID, astrocytes in the human cerebral cortex exhibit a transcriptional program consistent with neurotoxic reactivity (Yang et al., 2021).”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Discussion > Limitations of the study
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- Not checked yetcites Yang et al., 2021 source
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“These include microvascular thrombi, neuron loss, cortical inflammation, and even direct brain infection in some cases (Lee et al., 2021; Remsik et al., 2021; Song et al., 2021; Yang et al., 2021).”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Discussion
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“This region/circuit-specific effect of CCL11 highlights the potential of varying cytokine/chemokine profiles to exert disease-specific effects on the nervous system and for different infections to therefore cause differing prevalence of certain cognitive or neuropsychiatric symptoms.”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Discussion
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- Rests on an assumption: Systemic inflammation-induced neuroinflammation, consequent glial dysregulation and impairment of neural function is a principle that extends beyond COVID.
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“Myelin modulates the speed of neural impulse conduction (Smith and Koles, 1970; Waxman, 1980), provides metabolic support to axons (Fünfschilling et al., 2012), and exhibits adaptive plasticity (Gibson et al., 2014);”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Discussion
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“Emerging data indicate that the risk of cognitive impairment may be decreased in breakthrough infections of fully vaccinated individuals (Antonelli et al., 2022).”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Discussion > Limitations of the study
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- Not checked yetcites Antonelli et al., 2022 source
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“As occurs after cancer therapies and in other disease states, the microglial reactivity present after mild respiratory SARS-CoV-2 infection may also induce neurotoxic astrocyte reactivity (Liddelow et al., 2017; Gibson et al., 2019; Guttenplan et al., 2021), as well as aberrant microglial pruning of synapses (Hinkle et al., 2019; Hosseini et al., 2018; Vasek et al., 2016).”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Discussion > Limitations of the study
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- Rests on an assumption: The mouse model of mild respiratory SARS-CoV-2 infection recapitulates key features of mild respiratory COVID in humans.
In the paper
“While methotrexate directly stimulates reactivity of microglia (Gibson et al., 2019),”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Discussion
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Gibson et al., 2019 source
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“Such insights from diseases such as CRCI may elucidate therapeutic strategies to restore healthy cognitive function following COVID.”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Discussion > Limitations of the study
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“All procedures used in this study complied with federal guidelines and the institutional policies of the Yale School of Medicine Animal Care and Use Committee.”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > STAR★Methods > Experimental method and subject details
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“For all quantifications, experimenters were blinded to sample identity and condition.”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > STAR★Methods > Quantification and statistical analysis
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“Human lung histology was assessed on standard clinical H&E images by board-certified pathologists.”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > STAR★Methods > Method details
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“Axons in the cingulum of the corpus callosum were analyzed for g-ratios calculated by dividing the shortest axonal diameter by the total diameter (diameter of axon/diameter of axon plus myelin sheath), as well as for myelinated axon density (total number of myelinated axons in each frame) by experimenters who were blinded to experimental conditions and genotypes.”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > STAR★Methods > Method details
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“Human blood samples from subjects with long-COVID were collected with informed consent as part of an IRB-approved protocol at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > STAR★Methods > Experimental method and subject details
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“For the CCL11 study, 8-week-old CD1 male and female mice were purchased from Charles River and housed at Stanford University; all procedures complied with Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee protocol at Stanford.”
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“Human brain tissue samples were prepared and analyzed as previously described (Lee et al., 2021).”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > STAR★Methods > Method details
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- Not checked yetcites Lee et al., 2021 source
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“CD45 and CD11b analysis was used as a quality control prior to sorting.”
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“In every experiment, “n” equals at least 3 mice per group; the exact “n” for each experiment is defined in the figure legends.”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > STAR★Methods > Quantification and statistical analysis
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“All cell counting was performed by experimenters blinded to experimental conditions”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > STAR★Methods > Method details
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“this is driven by a small number of outlier microglia which clustered with these non-microglial cell types.”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > STAR★Methods > Quantification and statistical analysis
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“these few cells were excluded from downstream analysis as outliers.”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > STAR★Methods > Quantification and statistical analysis
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“A blinded pulmonary pathologist reviewed the slides and identified immune cell infiltration and other related pathologies.”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > STAR★Methods > Method details
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“Patient plasma was collected with informed consent and IRB approval as previously described (Lucas et al., 2020).”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > STAR★Methods > Method details
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- Not checked yetcites Lucas et al., 2020 source
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“Shapiro-Wilk test was used to determine normality for all datasets; all datasets were parametric.”
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“A minimum of 300 axons were scored per group.”
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“The oligodendrocyte loss observed here could be caused reactive astrocyte toxic lipids, which is known to cause oligodendrocyte cell death (Liddelow et al., 2017; Guttenplan et al., 2021).”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Discussion > Limitations of the study
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“For example, microglial depletion strategies can restore similar multicellular deficits and rescue impaired cognitive performance in mouse models of CRCI (Acharya et al., 2016; Gibson et al., 2019),”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > Discussion > Limitations of the study
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“Perfusion buffer, dissection buffer and digestion buffer were freshly prepared as previously described (Marsh et al., 2022).”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > STAR★Methods > Method details
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- Not checked yetcites Marsh et al., 2022 source
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“All samples were measured at the time of the first thaw.”
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“All blood samples were processed on the day of collection.”
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“demonstrating the validity of the cell type labels.”
§ Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation > STAR★Methods > Quantification and statistical analysis
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Circulating CCL11 levels in humans reflect CNS CCL11 levels or neuroinflammatory processes relevant to cognitive symptoms.
“To further explore the relevance of elevated CCL11 levels to cognitive sequelae of COVID infection in humans, we next examined circulating CCL11 cytokine levels in the plasma of people suffering from long COVID with and without cognitive symptoms.”
“We found elevated CCL11 levels in the plasma of people with long COVID exhibiting cognitive deficits, or “brain fog” (n = 48 subjects, 16 male/32 female, mean age 46.1 ± 14.6 years) compared with those with long COVID lacking cognitive symptoms (n = 15 subjects, 4 male/11 female, mean age 46.7 ± 14.1 years; Figure 5 A).”
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The mouse model of mild respiratory SARS-CoV-2 infection recapitulates key features of mild respiratory COVID in humans.
“Mice were infected intratracheally with AAV-hACE2 as previously described (Song et al., 2021).”
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The H1N1 influenza mouse model recapitulates mild respiratory influenza in humans.
“We examined a mouse model of respiratory H1N1 influenza, which causes only minimal sickness behavior with mild (<10%) weight loss”
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The methotrexate chemotherapy mouse model is comparable to COVID-related cognitive impairment.
“Comparison to methotrexate chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment model”
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Various immune challenges induce diverse immunological responses that differentially involve particular subsets of immune cells and induce disease-specific cytokine and chemokine profiles systemically and in the CNS.
“Various immune challenges induce diverse immunological responses that differentially involve particular subsets of immune cells and induce disease-specific cytokine and chemokine profiles systemically and in the CNS.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Systemic inflammation-induced neuroinflammation, consequent glial dysregulation and impairment of neural function is a principle that extends beyond COVID.
“Systemic inflammation-induced neuroinflammation, consequent glial dysregulation and impairment of neural function is a principle that extends beyond COVID.”
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The magnitude of the population infected during the COVID-19 pandemic is large.
“together with the magnitude of the population infected during this pandemic, contribute to the emerging crisis of lasting cognitive impairment associated with COVID.”
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The H1N1 strain of influenza is not neuroinvasive in mouse models.
“The H1N1 strain of influenza, which is not neuroinvasive in mouse models, causes acute elevation in CNS cytokines”
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Other respiratory viral infections such as influenza are associated with cognitive and other neurological sequelae.
“Other respiratory viral infections such as influenza are also associated with cognitive and other neurological sequelae.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The human long-COVID blood samples are representative of cognitive symptoms after COVID.
“Human blood samples from subjects with long-COVID were collected with informed consent as part of an IRB-approved protocol at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.”
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“White-matter microglia reactivity has also been related to aging52 and diseases.53”
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“CCL11 efficiently crosses the blood brain barrier56, has been implicated in neuroinflammatory disorders and SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) cognitive impairment57,58, and impairs neurogenesis54,58,59.”
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“evidence suggests microglia are the primary cell-type in the CNS responsive to CCL1158.”
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Human CCL11 specimens called both plasma and serum
MinorThe human long-COVID comparison and sample-processing Methods identify the specimens as plasma, but the regression result calls the measured levels serum CCL11.
“This determined that two variables, patient sex and history of autoimmune disease, significantly accounted for variability in serum CCL11 levels.”
“We found elevated CCL11 levels in the plasma of people with long COVID exhibiting cognitive deficits, or “brain fog””
Different tests stated for GO-term enrichment
MinorThe Figure S4 legend says GO-term enrichment used an over-representation permutation test, while the statistical Methods say it used a hypergeometric test.
“For (D and E), significance of GO term enrichment was tested using over-representation permutation test.”
“Enrichment of gene ontology (GO) biological process terms in cluster differentially expressed genes was tested using a hypergeometric test in the clusterProfiler package (v4.0.5) (Wu et al., 2021) with the Benjamini and Hochberg procedure.”
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Long COVID: Molecular Mechanisms and Detection Techniques
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Cerebromicrovascular mechanisms contributing to long COVID: implications for neurocognitive health
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Human microglial models to study host–virus interactions
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The functional and structural changes in the hippocampus of COVID-19 patients
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Biological agents and the aging brain: glial inflammation and neurotoxic signaling
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Clinical and CSF single-cell profiling of post-COVID-19 cognitive impairment
Hu, W. T., Kaluzová, M., Dawson, A., Sotelo, V., Papas, J., Lemenze, A. D., Shu, C., Jomartin, M., Nayyar, A., & Hussain, S. (2024) · Cell Reports Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.xcrm.2024.101561 · Cited by 25
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Yang, J., Li, Y., Wang, S., Li, H., Zhang, L., Zhang, H., Wang, P., Zheng, X., Yu, X., & Wei, W. (2023) · Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy · doi:10.1038/s41392-023-01386-8 · Cited by 24
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Neuropsychological measures of post-COVID-19 cognitive status
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Molecular cross-talk between long COVID-19 and Alzheimer’s disease
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Abnormal brain diffusivity in participants with persistent neuropsychiatric symptoms after COVID-19
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Animal models to study the neurological manifestations of the post-COVID-19 condition
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Kovacs, M., Dominguez-Belloso, A., Ali-Moussa, S., & Deczkowska, A. (2025) · Nature reviews. Immunology · doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01129-6 · Cited by 22
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Acute TNFα levels predict cognitive impairment 6–9 months after COVID-19 infection
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Endothelial type I interferon response and brain diseases: identifying STING as a therapeutic target
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Translating insights into therapies for Long Covid
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Neuroinflammation in Post COVID‐19 Sequelae: Neuroinvasion and Neuroimmune Crosstalk
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Long COVID: An approach to clinical assessment and management in primary care
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The impact of COVID-19 on accelerating of immunosenescence and brain aging
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The Potential Role of Viral Persistence in the Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection (PASC)
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Metadata
- Authors
- Fernández-Castañeda, A., Lu, P., Geraghty, A. C., Song, E., Lee, M.-H., Wood, J., O’Dea, M. R., Dutton, S., Shamardani, K., Nwangwu, K., Mancusi, R., Yalçın, B., Taylor, K. R., Acosta-Alvarez, L., Malacon, K., Keough, M. B., Ni, L., Woo, P. J., Contreras-Esquivel, D., Toland, A. M. S., Gehlhausen, J. R., Klein, J., Takahashi, T., Silva, J., Israelow, B., Lucas, C., Mao, T., Peña-Hernández, M. A., Tabachnikova, A., Homer, R. J., Tabacof, L., Tosto-Mancuso, J., Breyman, E., Kontorovich, A., McCarthy, D., Quezado, M., Vogel, H., Hefti, M. M., Perl, D. P., Liddelow, S., Folkerth, R., Putrino, D., Nath, A., Iwasaki, A., & Monje, M.
- Affiliations
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- Yale University (US)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (US)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
- New York University (US)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- University of Iowa (US)
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (US)
- NYU Langone Health (US)
- Office of Chief Medical Examiner (US)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Iwasaki, Akiko
- Monje, Michelle
- ORCID
- Fernández-Castañeda, Anthony
- Lu, Peiwen
- Geraghty, Anna C.
- Song, Eric
- Lee, Myoung-Hwa
- Wood, Jamie
- O’Dea, Michael R.
- Dutton, Selena
- Shamardani, Kiarash
- Nwangwu, Kamsi
- Mancusi, Rebecca
- Yalçın, Belgin
- Taylor, Kathryn R.
- Acosta-Alvarez, Lehi
- Malacon, Karen
- Keough, Michael B.
- Woo, Pamelyn J.
- Toland, Angus Martin Shaw
- Gehlhausen, Jeff R.
- Klein, Jon
- Takahashi, Takehiro
- Israelow, Benjamin
- Lucas, Carolina
- Mao, Tianyang
- Tabachnikova, Alexandra
- Homer, Robert J.
- Tabacof, Laura
- Tosto-Mancuso, Jenna
- Breyman, Erica
- Kontorovich, Amy
- Quezado, Martha
- Vogel, Hannes
- Hefti, Marco M.
- Perl, Daniel P.
- Liddelow, Shane
- Putrino, David
- Nath, Avindra
- Iwasaki, Akiko
- Monje, Michelle
- Venue
- Cell
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022-07
- Volume
- 185
- Issue
- 14
- Pages
- 2452-2468.e16
- ISSN
- 0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC9189143
- OpenAlex
- W4282556362
- Semantic Scholar
- 18a52e1748a39fd8816c9a12e0186dc58f8c8edc
- Cited by
- 521
- References
- 69
- Citations by year
- 2026: 69 · 2025: 104 · 2024: 143 · 2023: 158 · 2022: 46
- FWCI
- 59.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Cell (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Minerva Access (University of Melbourne) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- NIH
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Clinical Neurology › Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Developmental Neuroscience › Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
- Keywords
- post-COVID neurological symptoms, COVID-19 pandemic, microglial activation, white matter, hippocampal neurogenesis, oligodendrocyte loss, demyelination, eotaxin, CSF cytokines, influenza, neuroinflammation
- MeSH terms
- COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Animals, Humans, Influenza, Human, Myelin Sheath, Neoplasms, Microglia, Mice
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