id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-320909-p93gxjm2 Natoli, S. Does SARS‐Cov‐2 invade the brain? Translational lessons from animal models 2020-05-22 .txt text/plain 4718 246 39 Animal models of SARS and Middle East respiratory syndrome, caused by structurally similar CoVs during the 2002 and 2012 epidemics, have provided valuable data on nervous system involvement by CoVs and the potential for central nervous system spread of SARS‐CoV‐2. The expression of this receptor in neurons and endothelial cells hints that SARS‐CoV‐2 may have higher neuroinvasive potential compared with previous CoVs. However, it remains to be determined how such invasiveness might contribute to respiratory failure or cause direct neurological damage. Highly pathogenic coronavirus (CoV) infections are well-established sources of previous epidemics in humans, i.e. severe acute respiratory syndrome CoV (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome CoV (MERS-CoV). Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection causes neuronal death in the absence of encephalitis in mice transgenic for human ACE2 Mechanisms of host defense following severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (SARS-CoV) pulmonary infection of mice ./cache/cord-320909-p93gxjm2.txt ./txt/cord-320909-p93gxjm2.txt