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Histopathology and ultrastructural findings of fatal COVID-19 infections in Washington State: a case series

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In this paper, the authors provide a clinicopathological report of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) cases by documenting histopathological changes and evidence of SARS CoV2 tissue tropism.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2020-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 587 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Diffuse alveolar damage & Kidney disease.

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An ex vivo human precision-cut lung slice platform provides insight into SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis and antiviral drug efficacy

TL;DR: In this paper , an ex vivo human precision-cut lung slice (hPCLS) platform was established for studying SARS-CoV-2 pathogenicity and innate immune responses.
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Growth Arrest of Alveolar Cells in Response to Cytokines from Spike S1-Activated Macrophages: Role of IFN-γ

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of a cytokine-enriched conditioned medium from Spike S1-activated macrophage on alveolar epithelial A549 cells in terms of cell proliferation, induction of autophagy, and expression of genes related to protein degradation were investigated.
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Pathology Assessments of Multiple Organs in Fatal COVID-19 in Intensive Care Unit vs. Non-intensive Care Unit Patients

TL;DR: The authors' TEM experiments provided the first description of SARS-CoV-2-induced DMVs in kidney biopsy samples—a sign of intense viral replication in this organ, and Lung injury was different in ICU and non-ICU patients.
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SARS-Cov-2 infection and neuropathological findings: a report of 18 cases and review of the literature

TL;DR: In this article , the authors used microscopic examination, immunohistochemistry (using two different antibodies) and PCR-based techniques to describe the neuropathological findings and the presence of SARS-CoV-2 virus in postmortem brain samples.
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COVID-19-Associated Encephalopathy (COVEP): Basic Aspects of Neuropathology

TL;DR: The following chapter describe the basic neuropathological aspects of SARS-CoV-2 as based on the present evidence in scientific literature and propose the term COVEP—COVID-associated encephalopathy—to unite the undisputed effects of the infection on nervous system morphology and function.
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A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019.

TL;DR: Human airway epithelial cells were used to isolate a novel coronavirus, named 2019-nCoV, which formed a clade within the subgenus sarbecovirus, Orthocoronavirinae subfamily, which is the seventh member of the family of coronaviruses that infect humans.
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Characteristics of and Important Lessons From the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak in China: Summary of a Report of 72 314 Cases From the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

TL;DR: Hospitalised COVID-19 patients are frequently elderly subjects with co-morbidities receiving polypharmacy, all of which are known risk factors for d
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