NOD
Rag1−/−IL2Rgnull mice (NOD.Cg-
Rag1tm1MomIl2rgtm1Wjl/SzJ, were obtained from the Jackson Laboratory, catalog number 007799). NRG-Flk2−/− (NRGF) mice (NOD.Cg-
Rag1tm1MomFlt3tm1IrlIl2rgtm1Wjl/J) were generated as described previously (Douam et al., 2018 (
link)) and are available at The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME, USA) (catalog number 033127). NRG and NRGF mice were maintained at the Laboratory Animal Resource Center at Princeton University prior to engraftment with human tissues and shipment to the NEIDL.
In the NEIDL BSL-3 facility, mice were group-housed by sex in Tecniplast green line individually ventilated cages (Tecniplast, Buguggiate, Italy). Mice were maintained on a 12:12 light cycle at 30–70% humidity and provided sulfatrim-containing water and standard chow diets (LabDiet, St. Louis, MO, USA).
All mice in this study were inoculated with SARS-CoV-2 at an age of 20–30 weeks old. Both male and female mice were used.
Kenney D.J., O’Connell A.K., Turcinovic J., Montanaro P., Hekman R.M., Tamura T., Berneshawi A.R., Cafiero T.R., Al Abdullatif S., Blum B., Goldstein S.I., Heller B.L., Gertje H.P., Bullitt E., Trachtenberg A.J., Chavez E., Nono E.T., Morrison C., Tseng A.E., Sheikh A., Kurnick S., Grosz K., Bosmann M., Ericsson M., Huber B.R., Saeed M., Balazs A.B., Francis K.P., Klose A., Paragas N., Campbell J.D., Connor J.H., Emili A., Crossland N.A., Ploss A, & Douam F. (2022). Humanized mice reveal a macrophage-enriched gene signature defining human lung tissue protection during SARS-CoV-2 infection. Cell Reports, 39(3), 110714.