Divergent and self-reactive immune responses in the CNS of COVID-19 patients with neurological symptoms

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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementIACUC: All procedures used in this study (sex-matched, age-matched) complied with federal guidelines and the institutional policies of the Yale School of Medicine Animal Care and Use Committee.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.
    Cell Line Authenticationnot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Antibodies
    SentencesResources
    Plates were washed three times with PBS-T (PBS with 0.1% Tween-20) and 50μl of mouse IgG-specific secondary antibody (BioLegend #405306, 1:10,000) diluted in dilution solution added to each well.
    mouse IgG-specific
    suggested: None
    Experimental Models: Cell Lines
    SentencesResources
    Generation of SARS-CoV-2 virus: To generate SARS-CoV-2 viral stocks, Huh7.5 cells were inoculated with SARS-CoV-2 isolate USA-WA1/2020 (BEI Resources #NR-52281) to generate a P1 stock.
    Huh7.5
    suggested: RRID:CVCL_7927)
    Virus titer was determined by plaque assay using Vero E6 cells.
    Vero E6
    suggested: RRID:CVCL_XD71)
    Experimental Models: Organisms/Strains
    SentencesResources
    Cytokine assays: Soluble chemokines and cytokines were assessed in CSF supernatant and paired plasma using the HD71 Human Cytokine Array/Chemokine Array (Eve Technologies, Calgary, AB).
    AB
    suggested: RRID:BDSC_203)
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    To identify potential intercellular interactions between different cell types in the scRNA-seq data, we utilized CellPhoneDB v2(10)
    CellPhoneDB
    suggested: (CellPhoneDB, RRID:SCR_017054)
    Assignments of V(D)J sequences were performed using IgBLAST v.
    IgBLAST
    suggested: (IgBLAST, RRID:SCR_002873)
    Statistical methods: All statistical analyses were performed using commercially available software (Prism or Excel).
    Prism or Excel
    suggested: None
    Human Monoclonal antibodies: Data availability: Gene expression and repertoire data in the study are available in the NCBI repository SRAxxxx Raw mass spectrometry files and data analysis output are available from MassIVE (https://massive.ucsd.edu/) and Proteome Exchange (http://www.proteomexchange.org/) under MassIVE dataset identifier # and Proteome Exchange # Competing Interests: None of the authors declare interests related to the manuscript.
    MassIVE
    suggested: None
    http://www.proteomexchange.org/
    suggested: (ProteomeXchange, RRID:SCR_004055)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).


    Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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