Systemic Inflammation and Astrocyte Reactivity in the Neuropsychiatric Sequelae of COVID-19: Focus on Autism Spectrum Disorders

Front Cell Neurosci. 2021 Nov 29:15:748136. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2021.748136. eCollection 2021.

Marta Valenza¹, Luca Steardo Jr², Luca Steardo^{1

3}, Alexei Verkhratsky^{4

5

6}, Caterina Scuderi¹

¹ Department of Physiology and Pharmacology "Vittorio Erspamer", SAPIENZA University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
² Psychiatric Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
³ Università Telematica Giustino Fortunato, Benevento, Italy.
⁴ Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
⁵ Achucarro Center for Neuroscience, IKERBASQUE, Bilbao, Spain.
⁶ Department of Stem Cell Biology, State Research Institute Centre for Innovative Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania.

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Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; astrocytes; astrogliosis; autism spectrum disorders; microglia; neuroinflammation; reactive gliosis.