The endemic of SARS-CoV-2 underscores the imperative to elucidate its effects on pregnancy, particularly regarding the potential for vertical transmission and its influence on the early maternal-fetal interface, which remain insufficiently defined. To address this, we performed an extensive cohor...
Vertical transmission of Zika virus (ZIKV) causes severe fetal defects, but the exact pathogenic mechanism is unclear. We identified up to a 10480-fold higher expression of viral attachment factors AXL, GAS6 and PROS1 and 3880-fold increase in ZIKV infectiousness/propagation in decidual cells (DCs) ...
