id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-312692-jv3425w1 Iwata-Yoshikawa, Naoko Acute Respiratory Infection in Human Dipeptidyl Peptidase 4-Transgenic Mice Infected with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2019-01-09 .txt text/plain 8499 437 55 Rodents are not susceptible to the virus because they do not express functional receptors; therefore, we generated a new animal model of MERS-CoV infection based on transgenic mice expressing human DPP4 (hDPP4). To assess innate immune responses in the lungs of Tg2, non-Tg, and C57BL/6 mice, all animals received intranasal administration of PBS with or without (B) Immunohistochemical analysis of hDPP4 expression in human, Tg2, and non-Tg mouse tissues stained with an anti-hDPP4 polyclonal antibody. Tg2 mice aged 10 and 25 weeks showed increased expression of cytokines and chemokines associated with migration of T cells and activation of macrophages, including IP-10, IL-6, IL-13, MCP-1, IFN-␥, MIP-1␣, MIG, and IL-12, in the lungs at day 5 and/or 7 p.i. This result is the same as that observed in a hDPP4 knock-in mouse model reported by Coleman et al. ./cache/cord-312692-jv3425w1.txt ./txt/cord-312692-jv3425w1.txt