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    Efficacy of Transcendental Meditation to Reduce Stress Among Health Care Workers: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
    (JAMA network open, 2022-09) Joshi, Sangeeta P; Wong, An-Kwok Ian; Brucker, Amanda; Ardito, Taylor A; Chow, Shein-Chung; Vaishnavi, Sandeep; Lee, Patty J

    Importance

    Health care workers (HCWs) have been experiencing substantial stress and burnout, and evidence-based mitigation strategies are needed. Transcendental Meditation (TM) is a mantra meditation practice with potential efficacy in reducing stress.

    Objective

    To assess the efficacy of TM practice in reducing stress among HCWs over a 3-month period.

    Design, setting, and participants

    This single-center open-label randomized clinical trial was conducted among HCWs at an academic medical center from November 19, 2020, to August 31, 2021. Inclusion criteria comprised a score of 6 points or greater on the Subjective Units of Distress Scale and an increase of 5% or greater in baseline heart rate or an increase of 33% or greater in galvanic skin response after exposure to a stressful script. Exclusion criteria included the use of antipsychotic or β blocker medications, current suicidal ideation, or previous TM training. Of 213 HCWs who participated in prescreening, 95 attended in-person visits, resulting in 80 eligible participants who were randomized to receive a TM intervention (TM group) or usual treatment (control group).

    Interventions

    The TM group practiced TM for 20 minutes twice daily over a 3-month period. The control group received usual treatment, which consisted of access to wellness resources.

    Main outcomes and measures

    The primary outcome was change in acute psychological distress measured by the Global Severity Index. Secondary outcomes included changes in burnout (measured by the Maslach Burnout Inventory), insomnia (measured by the Insomnia Severity Index), and anxiety (measured by the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 scale).

    Results

    Among 80 participants, 66 (82.5%) were women, with a mean (SD) age of 40 (11) years. One participant (1.3%) was American Indian or Alaska Native, 5 (6.3%) were Asian, 12 (15.0%) were Black, 59 (73.8%) were White, and 3 (3.8%) were of unknown or unreported race; 4 participants (5.0%) were Hispanic, and 76 (95.0%) were non-Hispanic. A total of 41 participants were randomized to the TM group, and 39 were randomized to the control group. Participants in the TM group did not show a statistically significant decrease in psychological distress on the Global Severity Index compared with those in the control group (-5.6 points vs -3.8 points; between-group difference, -1.8 points; 95% CI, -4.2 to 0.6 points; P = .13). Compared with the control group, the TM group had significantly greater reductions in the secondary end points of emotional exhaustion (Maslach Burnout Inventory subscore: -8.0 points vs -2.6 points; between-group difference, -5.4 points; 95% CI, -9.2 to -1.6 points; P = .006), insomnia (Insomnia Severity Scale score: -4.1 points vs -1.9 points; between-group difference, -2.2 points; 95% CI, -4.4 to 0 points; P = .05), and anxiety (Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 score: -3.1 points vs -0.9 points; between-group difference, -2.2 points; 95% CI, -3.8 to -0.5; P = .01) at 3 months. A total of 38 participants (92.7%) in the TM group adhered to home practice.

    Conclusions and relevance

    In this randomized clinical trial, TM practice among HCWs over a 3-month period did not result in a statistically significant reduction in the primary outcome of acute psychological distress compared with usual treatment but significantly improved the secondary outcomes of burnout, anxiety, and insomnia. These findings suggest that TM may be a safe and effective strategy to alleviate chronic stress among HCWs.

    Trial registration

    ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT04632368.
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    Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition).
    (Autophagy, 2016-01) Klionsky, Daniel J; Abdelmohsen, Kotb; Abe, Akihisa; Abedin, Md Joynal; Abeliovich, Hagai; Acevedo Arozena, Abraham; Adachi, Hiroaki; Adams, Christopher M; Adams, Peter D; Adeli, Khosrow; Adhihetty, Peter J; Adler, Sharon G; Agam, Galila; Agarwal, Rajesh; Aghi, Manish K; Agnello, Maria; Agostinis, Patrizia; Aguilar, Patricia V; Aguirre-Ghiso, Julio; Airoldi, Edoardo M; Ait-Si-Ali, Slimane; Akematsu, Takahiko; Akporiaye, Emmanuel T; Al-Rubeai, Mohamed; Albaiceta, Guillermo M; Albanese, Chris; Albani, Diego; Albert, Matthew L; Aldudo, Jesus; Algül, Hana; Alirezaei, Mehrdad; Alloza, Iraide; Almasan, Alexandru; Almonte-Beceril, Maylin; Alnemri, Emad S; Alonso, Covadonga; Altan-Bonnet, Nihal; Altieri, Dario C; Alvarez, Silvia; Alvarez, Silvia; Alvarez-Erviti, Lydia; Alves, Sandro; Amadoro, Giuseppina; Amano, Atsuo; Amantini, Consuelo; Ambrosio, Santiago; Amelio, Ivano; Amer, Amal O; Amessou, Mohamed; Amon, Angelika; An, Zhenyi; Anania, Frank A; Andersen, Stig U; Andley, Usha P; Andreadi, Catherine K; Andrieu-Abadie, Nathalie; Anel, Alberto; Ann, David K; Anoopkumar-Dukie, Shailendra; Antonioli, Manuela; Aoki, Hiroshi; Apostolova, Nadezda; Aquila, Saveria; Aquilano, Katia; Araki, Koichi; Arama, Eli; Aranda, Agustin; Araya, Jun; Arcaro, Alexandre; Arias, Esperanza; Arimoto, Hirokazu; Ariosa, Aileen R; Armstrong, Jane L; Arnould, Thierry; Arsov, Ivica; Asanuma, Katsuhiko; Askanas, Valerie; Asselin, Eric; Atarashi, Ryuichiro; Atherton, Sally S; Atkin, Julie D; Attardi, Laura D; Auberger, Patrick; Auburger, Georg; Aurelian, Laure; Autelli, Riccardo; Avagliano, Laura; Avantaggiati, Maria Laura; Avrahami, Limor; Awale, Suresh; Azad, Neelam; Bachetti, Tiziana; Backer, Jonathan M; Bae, Dong-Hun; Bae, Jae-Sung; Bae, Ok-Nam; Bae, Soo Han; Baehrecke, Eric H; Baek, Seung-Hoon; Baghdiguian, Stephen; Bagniewska-Zadworna, Agnieszka; Bai, Hua; Bai, Jie; Bai, Xue-Yuan; Bailly, Yannick; Balaji, Kithiganahalli Narayanaswamy; Balduini, Walter; Ballabio, Andrea; Balzan, Rena; Banerjee, Rajkumar; Bánhegyi, Gábor; Bao, Haijun; Barbeau, Benoit; Barrachina, Maria D; Barreiro, Esther; Bartel, Bonnie; Bartolomé, Alberto; Bassham, Diane C; Bassi, Maria Teresa; Bast, Robert C; Basu, Alakananda; Batista, Maria Teresa; Batoko, Henri; Battino, Maurizio; Bauckman, Kyle; Baumgarner, Bradley L; Bayer, K Ulrich; Beale, Rupert; Beaulieu, Jean-François; Beck, George R; Becker, Christoph; Beckham, J David; Bédard, Pierre-André; Bednarski, Patrick J; Begley, Thomas J; Behl, Christian; Behrends, Christian; Behrens, Georg Mn; Behrns, Kevin E; Bejarano, Eloy; Belaid, Amine; Belleudi, Francesca; Bénard, Giovanni; Berchem, Guy; Bergamaschi, Daniele; Bergami, Matteo; Berkhout, Ben; Berliocchi, Laura; Bernard, Amélie; Bernard, Monique; Bernassola, Francesca; Bertolotti, Anne; Bess, Amanda S; Besteiro, Sébastien; Bettuzzi, Saverio; Bhalla, Savita; Bhattacharyya, Shalmoli; Bhutia, Sujit K; Biagosch, Caroline; Bianchi, Michele Wolfe; Biard-Piechaczyk, Martine; Billes, Viktor; Bincoletto, Claudia; Bingol, Baris; 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Bultynck, Geert; Bumbasirevic, Vladimir; Burelle, Yan; Burke, Robert E; Burmeister, Margit; Bütikofer, Peter; Caberlotto, Laura; Cadwell, Ken; Cahova, Monika; Cai, Dongsheng; Cai, Jingjing; Cai, Qian; Calatayud, Sara; Camougrand, Nadine; Campanella, Michelangelo; Campbell, Grant R; Campbell, Matthew; Campello, Silvia; Candau, Robin; Caniggia, Isabella; Cantoni, Lavinia; Cao, Lizhi; Caplan, Allan B; Caraglia, Michele; Cardinali, Claudio; Cardoso, Sandra Morais; Carew, Jennifer S; Carleton, Laura A; Carlin, Cathleen R; Carloni, Silvia; Carlsson, Sven R; Carmona-Gutierrez, Didac; Carneiro, Leticia Am; Carnevali, Oliana; Carra, Serena; Carrier, Alice; Carroll, Bernadette; Casas, Caty; Casas, Josefina; Cassinelli, Giuliana; Castets, Perrine; Castro-Obregon, Susana; Cavallini, Gabriella; Ceccherini, Isabella; Cecconi, Francesco; Cederbaum, Arthur I; Ceña, Valentín; Cenci, Simone; Cerella, Claudia; Cervia, Davide; Cetrullo, Silvia; Chaachouay, Hassan; Chae, Han-Jung; Chagin, Andrei S; Chai, Chee-Yin; Chakrabarti, Gopal; Chamilos, Georgios; Chan, Edmond Yw; Chan, Matthew Tv; Chandra, Dhyan; Chandra, Pallavi; Chang, Chih-Peng; Chang, Raymond Chuen-Chung; Chang, Ta Yuan; Chatham, John C; Chatterjee, Saurabh; Chauhan, Santosh; Che, Yongsheng; Cheetham, Michael E; Cheluvappa, Rajkumar; Chen, Chun-Jung; Chen, Gang; Chen, Guang-Chao; Chen, Guoqiang; Chen, Hongzhuan; Chen, Jeff W; Chen, Jian-Kang; Chen, Min; Chen, Mingzhou; Chen, Peiwen; Chen, Qi; Chen, Quan; Chen, Shang-Der; Chen, Si; Chen, Steve S-L; Chen, Wei; Chen, Wei-Jung; Chen, Wen Qiang; Chen, Wenli; Chen, Xiangmei; Chen, Yau-Hung; Chen, Ye-Guang; Chen, Yin; Chen, Yingyu; Chen, Yongshun; Chen, Yu-Jen; Chen, Yue-Qin; Chen, Yujie; Chen, Zhen; Chen, Zhong; Cheng, Alan; Cheng, Christopher Hk; Cheng, Hua; Cheong, Heesun; Cherry, Sara; Chesney, Jason; Cheung, Chun Hei Antonio; Chevet, Eric; Chi, Hsiang Cheng; Chi, Sung-Gil; Chiacchiera, Fulvio; Chiang, Hui-Ling; Chiarelli, Roberto; Chiariello, Mario; Chieppa, Marcello; Chin, Lih-Shen; Chiong, Mario; Chiu, Gigi Nc; Cho, Dong-Hyung; Cho, Ssang-Goo; Cho, William C; Cho, Yong-Yeon; Cho, Young-Seok; Choi, Augustine Mk; Choi, Eui-Ju; Choi, Eun-Kyoung; Choi, Jayoung; Choi, Mary E; Choi, Seung-Il; Chou, Tsui-Fen; Chouaib, Salem; Choubey, Divaker; Choubey, Vinay; Chow, Kuan-Chih; Chowdhury, Kamal; Chu, Charleen T; Chuang, Tsung-Hsien; Chun, Taehoon; Chung, Hyewon; Chung, Taijoon; Chung, Yuen-Li; Chwae, Yong-Joon; Cianfanelli, Valentina; Ciarcia, Roberto; Ciechomska, Iwona A; Ciriolo, Maria Rosa; Cirone, Mara; Claerhout, Sofie; Clague, Michael J; Clària, Joan; Clarke, Peter Gh; Clarke, Robert; Clementi, Emilio; Cleyrat, Cédric; Cnop, Miriam; Coccia, Eliana M; Cocco, Tiziana; Codogno, Patrice; Coers, Jörn; Cohen, Ezra Ew; Colecchia, David; Coletto, Luisa; Coll, Núria S; Colucci-Guyon, Emma; Comincini, Sergio; Condello, Maria; Cook, Katherine L; Coombs, Graham H; Cooper, Cynthia D; Cooper, J Mark; Coppens, Isabelle; Corasaniti, Maria Tiziana; Corazzari, Marco; Corbalan, Ramon; Corcelle-Termeau, Elisabeth; Cordero, Mario D; Corral-Ramos, Cristina; Corti, Olga; Cossarizza, Andrea; Costelli, Paola; Costes, Safia; Cotman, Susan L; Coto-Montes, Ana; Cottet, Sandra; Couve, Eduardo; Covey, Lori R; Cowart, L Ashley; Cox, Jeffery S; Coxon, Fraser P; Coyne, Carolyn B; Cragg, Mark S; Craven, Rolf J; Crepaldi, Tiziana; Crespo, Jose L; Criollo, Alfredo; Crippa, Valeria; Cruz, Maria Teresa; Cuervo, Ana Maria; Cuezva, Jose M; Cui, Taixing; Cutillas, Pedro R; Czaja, Mark J; Czyzyk-Krzeska, Maria F; Dagda, Ruben K; Dahmen, Uta; Dai, Chunsun; Dai, Wenjie; Dai, Yun; Dalby, Kevin N; Dalla Valle, Luisa; Dalmasso, Guillaume; D'Amelio, Marcello; Damme, Markus; Darfeuille-Michaud, Arlette; Dargemont, Catherine; Darley-Usmar, Victor M; Dasarathy, Srinivasan; Dasgupta, Biplab; Dash, Srikanta; Dass, Crispin R; Davey, Hazel Marie; Davids, Lester M; Dávila, David; Davis, Roger J; Dawson, Ted M; Dawson, Valina L; Daza, Paula; de Belleroche, Jackie; de Figueiredo, Paul; de Figueiredo, Regina Celia Bressan Queiroz; de la Fuente, José; De Martino, Luisa; De Matteis, Antonella; De Meyer, Guido Ry; De Milito, Angelo; De Santi, Mauro; de Souza, Wanderley; De Tata, Vincenzo; De Zio, Daniela; Debnath, Jayanta; Dechant, Reinhard; Decuypere, Jean-Paul; Deegan, Shane; Dehay, Benjamin; Del Bello, Barbara; Del Re, Dominic P; Delage-Mourroux, Régis; Delbridge, Lea Md; Deldicque, Louise; Delorme-Axford, Elizabeth; Deng, Yizhen; Dengjel, Joern; Denizot, Melanie; Dent, Paul; Der, Channing J; Deretic, Vojo; Derrien, Benoît; Deutsch, Eric; Devarenne, Timothy P; Devenish, Rodney J; Di Bartolomeo, Sabrina; Di Daniele, Nicola; Di Domenico, Fabio; Di Nardo, Alessia; Di Paola, Simone; Di Pietro, Antonio; Di Renzo, Livia; DiAntonio, Aaron; Díaz-Araya, Guillermo; Díaz-Laviada, Ines; Diaz-Meco, Maria T; Diaz-Nido, Javier; Dickey, Chad A; Dickson, Robert C; Diederich, Marc; Digard, Paul; Dikic, Ivan; Dinesh-Kumar, Savithrama P; Ding, Chan; Ding, Wen-Xing; Ding, Zufeng; Dini, Luciana; Distler, Jörg Hw; Diwan, Abhinav; Djavaheri-Mergny, Mojgan; Dmytruk, Kostyantyn; Dobson, Renwick Cj; Doetsch, Volker; Dokladny, Karol; Dokudovskaya, Svetlana; Donadelli, Massimo; Dong, X Charlie; Dong, Xiaonan; Dong, Zheng; Donohue, Terrence M; Doran, Kelly S; D'Orazi, Gabriella; Dorn, Gerald W; Dosenko, Victor; Dridi, Sami; Drucker, Liat; Du, Jie; Du, Li-Lin; Du, Lihuan; du Toit, André; Dua, Priyamvada; Duan, Lei; Duann, Pu; Dubey, Vikash Kumar; Duchen, Michael R; Duchosal, Michel A; Duez, Helene; Dugail, Isabelle; Dumit, Verónica I; Duncan, Mara C; Dunlop, Elaine A; Dunn, William A; Dupont, Nicolas; Dupuis, Luc; Durán, Raúl V; Durcan, Thomas M; Duvezin-Caubet, Stéphane; Duvvuri, Umamaheswar; Eapen, Vinay; Ebrahimi-Fakhari, Darius; Echard, Arnaud; Eckhart, Leopold; Edelstein, Charles L; Edinger, Aimee L; Eichinger, Ludwig; Eisenberg, Tobias; Eisenberg-Lerner, Avital; Eissa, N Tony; El-Deiry, Wafik S; El-Khoury, Victoria; Elazar, Zvulun; Eldar-Finkelman, Hagit; Elliott, Chris Jh; Emanuele, Enzo; Emmenegger, Urban; Engedal, Nikolai; Engelbrecht, Anna-Mart; Engelender, Simone; Enserink, Jorrit M; Erdmann, Ralf; Erenpreisa, Jekaterina; Eri, Rajaraman; Eriksen, Jason L; Erman, Andreja; Escalante, Ricardo; Eskelinen, Eeva-Liisa; Espert, Lucile; Esteban-Martínez, Lorena; Evans, Thomas J; Fabri, Mario; Fabrias, Gemma; Fabrizi, Cinzia; Facchiano, Antonio; Færgeman, Nils J; Faggioni, Alberto; Fairlie, W Douglas; Fan, Chunhai; Fan, Daping; Fan, Jie; Fang, Shengyun; Fanto, Manolis; Fanzani, Alessandro; Farkas, Thomas; Faure, Mathias; Favier, Francois B; Fearnhead, Howard; Federici, Massimo; Fei, Erkang; Felizardo, Tania C; Feng, Hua; Feng, Yibin; Feng, Yuchen; Ferguson, Thomas A; Fernández, Álvaro F; Fernandez-Barrena, Maite G; Fernandez-Checa, Jose C; Fernández-López, Arsenio; Fernandez-Zapico, Martin E; Feron, Olivier; Ferraro, Elisabetta; Ferreira-Halder, Carmen Veríssima; Fesus, Laszlo; Feuer, Ralph; Fiesel, Fabienne C; Filippi-Chiela, Eduardo C; Filomeni, Giuseppe; Fimia, Gian Maria; Fingert, John H; Finkbeiner, Steven; Finkel, Toren; Fiorito, Filomena; Fisher, Paul B; Flajolet, Marc; Flamigni, Flavio; Florey, Oliver; Florio, Salvatore; Floto, R Andres; Folini, Marco; Follo, Carlo; Fon, Edward A; Fornai, Francesco; Fortunato, Franco; Fraldi, Alessandro; Franco, Rodrigo; Francois, Arnaud; François, Aurélie; Frankel, Lisa B; Fraser, Iain Dc; Frey, Norbert; Freyssenet, Damien G; Frezza, Christian; Friedman, Scott L; Frigo, Daniel E; Fu, Dongxu; Fuentes, José M; Fueyo, Juan; Fujitani, Yoshio; Fujiwara, Yuuki; Fujiya, Mikihiro; Fukuda, Mitsunori; Fulda, Simone; Fusco, Carmela; Gabryel, Bozena; Gaestel, Matthias; Gailly, Philippe; Gajewska, Malgorzata; Galadari, Sehamuddin; Galili, Gad; Galindo, Inmaculada; Galindo, Maria F; Galliciotti, Giovanna; Galluzzi, Lorenzo; Galluzzi, Luca; Galy, Vincent; Gammoh, Noor; Gandy, Sam; Ganesan, Anand K; Ganesan, Swamynathan; Ganley, Ian G; Gannagé, Monique; Gao, Fen-Biao; Gao, Feng; Gao, Jian-Xin; García Nannig, Lorena; García Véscovi, Eleonora; Garcia-Macía, Marina; Garcia-Ruiz, Carmen; Garg, Abhishek D; Garg, Pramod Kumar; Gargini, Ricardo; Gassen, Nils Christian; Gatica, Damián; Gatti, Evelina; Gavard, Julie; Gavathiotis, Evripidis; Ge, Liang; Ge, Pengfei; Ge, Shengfang; Gean, Po-Wu; Gelmetti, Vania; Genazzani, Armando A; Geng, Jiefei; Genschik, Pascal; Gerner, Lisa; Gestwicki, Jason E; Gewirtz, David A; Ghavami, Saeid; Ghigo, Eric; Ghosh, Debabrata; Giammarioli, Anna Maria; Giampieri, Francesca; Giampietri, Claudia; Giatromanolaki, Alexandra; Gibbings, Derrick J; Gibellini, Lara; Gibson, Spencer B; Ginet, Vanessa; Giordano, Antonio; Giorgini, Flaviano; Giovannetti, Elisa; Girardin, Stephen E; Gispert, Suzana; Giuliano, Sandy; Gladson, Candece L; Glavic, Alvaro; Gleave, Martin; Godefroy, Nelly; Gogal, Robert M; Gokulan, Kuppan; Goldman, Gustavo H; Goletti, Delia; Goligorsky, Michael S; Gomes, Aldrin V; Gomes, Ligia C; Gomez, Hernando; Gomez-Manzano, Candelaria; Gómez-Sánchez, Rubén; Gonçalves, Dawit Ap; Goncu, Ebru; Gong, Qingqiu; Gongora, Céline; Gonzalez, Carlos B; Gonzalez-Alegre, Pedro; Gonzalez-Cabo, Pilar; González-Polo, Rosa Ana; Goping, Ing Swie; Gorbea, Carlos; Gorbunov, Nikolai V; Goring, Daphne R; Gorman, Adrienne M; Gorski, Sharon M; Goruppi, Sandro; Goto-Yamada, Shino; Gotor, Cecilia; Gottlieb, Roberta A; Gozes, Illana; Gozuacik, Devrim; Graba, Yacine; Graef, Martin; Granato, Giovanna E; Grant, Gary Dean; Grant, Steven; Gravina, Giovanni Luca; Green, Douglas R; Greenhough, Alexander; Greenwood, Michael T; Grimaldi, Benedetto; Gros, Frédéric; Grose, Charles; Groulx, Jean-Francois; Gruber, Florian; Grumati, Paolo; Grune, Tilman; Guan, Jun-Lin; Guan, Kun-Liang; Guerra, Barbara; Guillen, Carlos; Guillen, Carlos; Gulshan, Kailash; Gunst, Jan; Guo, Chuanyong; Guo, Lei; Guo, Ming; Guo, Wenjie; Guo, Xu-Guang; Gust, Andrea A; Gustafsson, Åsa B; Gutierrez, Elaine; Gutierrez, Maximiliano G; Gwak, Ho-Shin; Haas, Albert; Haber, James E; Hadano, Shinji; Hagedorn, Monica; Hahn, David R; Halayko, Andrew J; Hamacher-Brady, Anne; Hamada, Kozo; Hamai, Ahmed; Hamann, Andrea; Hamasaki, Maho; 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    Human Lung Stem Cell-Based Alveolospheres Provide Insights into SARS-CoV-2-Mediated Interferon Responses and Pneumocyte Dysfunction.
    (Cell stem cell, 2020-10-21) Katsura, Hiroaki; Sontake, Vishwaraj; Tata, Aleksandra; Kobayashi, Yoshihiko; Edwards, Caitlin E; Heaton, Brook E; Konkimalla, Arvind; Asakura, Takanori; Mikami, Yu; Fritch, Ethan J; Lee, Patty J; Heaton, Nicholas S; Boucher, Richard C; Randell, Scott H; Baric, Ralph S; Tata, Purushothama Rao
    Coronavirus infection causes diffuse alveolar damage leading to acute respiratory distress syndrome. The absence of ex vivo models of human alveolar epithelium is hindering an understanding of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pathogenesis. Here, we report a feeder-free, scalable, chemically defined, and modular alveolosphere culture system for the propagation and differentiation of human alveolar type 2 cells/pneumocytes derived from primary lung tissue. Cultured pneumocytes express the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) receptor angiotensin-converting enzyme receptor type-2 (ACE2) and can be infected with virus. Transcriptome and histological analysis of infected alveolospheres mirror features of COVID-19 lungs, including emergence of interferon (IFN)-mediated inflammatory responses, loss of surfactant proteins, and apoptosis. Treatment of alveolospheres with IFNs recapitulates features of virus infection, including cell death. In contrast, alveolospheres pretreated with low-dose IFNs show a reduction in viral replication, suggesting the prophylactic effectiveness of IFNs against SARS-CoV-2. Human stem cell-based alveolospheres, thus, provide novel insights into COVID-19 pathogenesis and can serve as a model for understanding human respiratory diseases.
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    Immuno-fibrotic drivers of impaired lung function in post-COVID-19 syndrome.
    (medRxiv, 2021-02-06) Chun, Hyung J; Coutavas, Elias; Pine, Alexander; Lee, Alfred I; Yu, Vanessa; Shallow, Marcus; Giovacchini, Coral X; Mathews, Anne; Stephenson, Brian; Que, Loretta G; Lee, Patty J; Kraft, Bryan D
    Introduction: Subjects recovering from COVID-19 frequently experience persistent respiratory ailments; however, little is known about the underlying biological factors that may direct lung recovery and the extent to which these are affected by COVID-19 severity. Methods: We performed a prospective cohort study of subjects with persistent symptoms after recovering from acute COVID-19 illness, collecting clinical data, pulmonary function tests, and blood. Plasma samples were used for multiplex profiling of circulating factors associated with inflammation, metabolism, angiogenesis, and fibrosis. Results: Sixty-one subjects were enrolled across two academic medical centers at a median of 9 weeks (interquartile range 6-10) after COVID-19 illness: n=13 subjects (21%) mild/non-hospitalized, n=30 (49%) hospitalized/non-critical, and n=18 subjects (30%) hospitalized/intensive care ("ICU"). Fifty-three subjects (85%) had lingering symptoms, most commonly dyspnea (69%) and cough (58%). Forced vital capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1), and diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (DLCO) declined as COVID-19 severity increased (P<0.05), but did not correlate with respiratory symptoms. Partial least-squares discriminant analysis of plasma biomarker profiles clustered subjects by past COVID-19 severity. Lipocalin 2 (LCN2), matrix metalloproteinase-7 (MMP-7), and hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) identified by the model were significantly higher in the ICU group (P<0.05) and inversely correlated with FVC and DLCO (P<0.05). Conclusions: Subjective respiratory symptoms are common after acute COVID-19 illness but do not correlate with COVID-19 severity or pulmonary function. Host response profiles reflecting neutrophil activation (LCN2), fibrosis signaling (MMP-7), and alveolar repair (HGF) track with lung impairment and may be novel therapeutic or prognostic targets. Funding: The study was funded in part by the NHLBI (K08HL130557 to BDK and R01HL142818 to HJC), the DeLuca Foundation Award (AP), a donation from Jack Levin to the Benign Hematology Program at Yale, and Divisional/Departmental funds from Duke University.
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    Immunofibrotic drivers of impaired lung function in postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
    (JCI insight, 2021-07-22) Chun, Hyung J; Coutavas, Elias; Pine, Alexander B; Lee, Alfred I; Yu, Vanessa L; Shallow, Marcus K; Giovacchini, Coral X; Mathews, Anne M; Stephenson, Brian; Que, Loretta G; Lee, Patty J; Kraft, Bryan D
    BACKGROUNDIndividuals recovering from COVID-19 frequently experience persistent respiratory ailments, which are key elements of postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC); however, little is known about the underlying biological factors that may direct lung recovery and the extent to which these are affected by COVID-19 severity.METHODSWe performed a prospective cohort study of individuals with persistent symptoms after acute COVID-19, collecting clinical data, pulmonary function tests, and plasma samples used for multiplex profiling of inflammatory, metabolic, angiogenic, and fibrotic factors.RESULTSSixty-one participants were enrolled across 2 academic medical centers at a median of 9 weeks (interquartile range, 6-10 weeks) after COVID-19 illness: n = 13 participants (21%) had mild COVID-19 and were not hospitalized, n = 30 participants (49%) were hospitalized but were considered noncritical, and n = 18 participants (30%) were hospitalized and in the intensive care unit (ICU). Fifty-three participants (85%) had lingering symptoms, most commonly dyspnea (69%) and cough (58%). Forced vital capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1), and diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (DLCO) declined as COVID-19 severity increased (P < 0.05) but these values did not correlate with respiratory symptoms. Partial least-squares discriminant analysis of plasma biomarker profiles clustered participants by past COVID-19 severity. Lipocalin-2 (LCN2), MMP-7, and HGF identified by our analysis were significantly higher in the ICU group (P < 0.05), inversely correlated with FVC and DLCO (P < 0.05), and were confirmed in a separate validation cohort (n = 53).CONCLUSIONSubjective respiratory symptoms are common after acute COVID-19 illness but do not correlate with COVID-19 severity or pulmonary function. Host response profiles reflecting neutrophil activation (LCN2), fibrosis signaling (MMP-7), and alveolar repair (HGF) track with lung impairment and may be novel therapeutic or prognostic targets.FundingNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (K08HL130557 and R01HL142818), American Heart Association (Transformational Project Award), the DeLuca Foundation Award, a donation from Jack Levin to the Benign Hematology Program at Yale University, and Duke University.
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    Multi-apical polarity of alveolar stem cells and their dynamics during lung development and regeneration.
    (iScience, 2022-10) Konkimalla, Arvind; Konishi, Satoshi; Kobayashi, Yoshihiko; Kadur Lakshminarasimha Murthy, Preetish; Macadlo, Lauren; Mukherjee, Ananya; Elmore, Zachary; Kim, So-Jin; Pendergast, Ann Marie; Lee, Patty J; Asokan, Aravind; Knudsen, Lars; Bravo-Cordero, Jose Javier; Tata, Aleksandra; Tata, Purushothama Rao
    Epithelial cells of diverse tissues are characterized by the presence of a single apical domain. In the lung, electron microscopy studies have suggested that alveolar type-2 epithelial cells (AT2s) en face multiple alveolar sacs. However, apical and basolateral organization of the AT2s and their establishment during development and remodeling after injury repair remain unknown. Thick tissue imaging and electron microscopy revealed that a single AT2 can have multiple apical domains that enface multiple alveoli. AT2s gradually establish multi-apical domains post-natally, and they are maintained throughout life. Lineage tracing, live imaging, and selective cell ablation revealed that AT2s dynamically reorganize multi-apical domains during injury repair. Single-cell transcriptome signatures of residual AT2s revealed changes in cytoskeleton and cell migration. Significantly, cigarette smoke and oncogene activation lead to dysregulation of multi-apical domains. We propose that the multi-apical domains of AT2s enable them to be poised to support the regeneration of a large array of alveolar sacs.