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ReviewJournal of neuroinflammation2022

COVID-19 and cognitive impairment: neuroinvasive and blood‒brain barrier dysfunction.

Yanting Chen, Wenren Yang, Feng Chen, Lili Cui

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Review in Journal of neuroinflammation, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers.

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65citing papers in PubMed
14.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

65 citing papers in PubMed, 119 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yanting Chen *Department of Neurology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Age-Related Cardiac and Cerebral Diseases, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, 524000, China.
Wenren Yang *Department of Trauma Center, Hengyang Medical School, Affiliated Nanhua Hospital, University of South China, Hengyang, 421002, China.
Feng ChenDepartment of Neurology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Age-Related Cardiac and Cerebral Diseases, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, 524000, China.
Lili CuiDepartment of Neurology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Age-Related Cardiac and Cerebral Diseases, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, 524000, China. cuilili@gdmu.edu.cn.
Guangdong Medical College · CNUniversity of South China · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 82071190
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has led to a global pandemic. Although COVID-19 was initially described as a respiratory disease, there is growing evidence that SARS-CoV-2 is able to invade the brains of COVID-19 patients and cause cognitive impairment. It has been reported that SARS-CoV-2 may have invasive effects on a variety of cranial nerves, including the olfactory, trigeminal, optic, and vagus nerves, and may spread to other brain regions via infected nerve endings, retrograde transport, and transsynaptic transmission. In addition, the blood-brain barrier (BBB), composed of neurovascular units (NVUs) lining the brain microvasculature, acts as a physical barrier between nerve cells and circulating cells of the immune system and is able to regulate the transfer of substances between the blood and brain parenchyma. Therefore, the BBB may be an important structure for the direct and indirect interaction of SARS-CoV-2 with the brain via the blood circulation. In this review, we assessed the potential involvement of neuroinvasion under the SARS-CoV-2 infection, and the potential impact of BBB disorder under SARS-CoV-2 infection on cognitive impairment.

Indexed as

Cognitive DysfunctionCOVID-19Blood-Brain BarrierBrainHumansSARS-CoV-2BBBCognitiveCOVID-19NeuroinvasionSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID36071466
PMCPMC9450840
OpenAlexW4294992263

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