Cell BiologybioRxiv
Detection of Viral RNA Fragments in Human iPSC-Cardiomyocytes following Treatment with Extracellular Vesicles from SARS-CoV-2 Coding-Sequence-Overexpressing Lung Epithelial Cells
Y. Kwon, S. B. Nukala, S. Srivastava…·S.-G. Ong
This study shows that SARS-CoV-2 RNA can enter cardiomyocytes via extracellular vesicles from infected lung cells, leading to inflammation-related gene upregulation.
DOI 10.1186/s13287-020-02033-7