Responses to acute infection with SARS-CoV-2 in the lungs of rhesus macaques, baboons and marmosets

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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementIACUC: The animal studies in each of the species were approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee of the Texas Biomedical Research Institute and as an omnibus Biosafety Committee protocol.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.
    Cell Line Authenticationnot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Antibodies
    SentencesResources
    Briefly, Cellular phenotypes were studied using antibodies: CD3 (clone SP34-2), CD4 (clone L200),
    CD3
    suggested: None
    CD4
    suggested: None
    , 37°C for 2 h) or anti-SARS CoV-2 nucleocapsid (N) antibody (Sino Biologicals, USA, 1:100
    anti-SARS CoV-2 nucleocapsid ( N
    suggested: None
    , 37°C for 2h) and mouse anti-human HLA-DR antibody (Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA, 1:100, 2 h at 37°C).
    anti-human HLA-DR
    suggested: None
    Alexa-Fluor 555 conjugate secondary antibodies (Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA, 1:400, 1 h at 37°C) were used for labelling Spike, Ki67 and HLA-DR, CD68 primary antibodies respectively.
    HLA-DR
    suggested: None
    CD68
    suggested: None
    Experimental Models: Cell Lines
    SentencesResources
    The stock virus was passaged for a fifth time in Vero E6 cells at a multiplicity of infection (MOI) of approximately 0.001.
    Vero E6
    suggested: RRID:CVCL_XD71)
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Macaques were enrolled from a specific pathogen-free colony maintained at the SNPRC and were tested free from SPF-4 (
    SNPRC
    suggested: (Southwest National Primate Research Center, RRID:SCR_008292)
    Samples were then transferred to the sample rack on EpMotion
    EpMotion
    suggested: None
    For antigenic stimulation cells were cultured overnight with SARS-CoV-2 specific peptide pools of the nucleocapsid (N), membrane (M) and spike (S) proteins (PepTivator SARS-CoV-2 peptide pool, Miltenyi Biotech, USA).
    SARS-CoV-2
    suggested: (Active Motif Cat# 91351, RRID:AB_2847848)
    Statistical analyses: Graphs were prepared and statistical comparisons applied using GraphPad Prism version 8 (La Jolla, CA)
    GraphPad Prism
    suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)
    2-tailed Student’s t-test, ordinary analysis of variance (ANOVA) or one-way or two-way repeated measure analysis of variance (rmANOVA) with Geisser-Greenhouse correction for sphericity and Tukey’s post hoc correction for multiple-testing (GraphPad Prism 8) was applied wherever applicable and as described in the figure legends.
    GraphPad
    suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)

    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 found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).


    Results from JetFighter: Please consider improving the rainbow (“jet”) colormap(s) used on pages 79 and 47. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.


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

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