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Assessment of ACE1 variants and ACE1/ACE2 expression in COVID-19 patients.
Vascular pharmacology - 1 Feb 2022
Akbari Mohammadarian, Taheri Mohammad, Mehrpoor Golbarg, Eslami Solat, Hussen Bashdar Mahmud, Ghafouri-Fard Soudeh, Arefian Noormohammad
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Contribution of the renin-angiotensinogen system in the risk of COVID-19 and related complications have been assessed by several groups. However, the results are not consistent. We examined levels of ACE1 and ACE2 in the circulation of two groups of COVID-19 patients (ICU-admitted and general ward-admitted patients) compared with healthy controls. We also genotyped two polymorphisms in ACE1 gene (the ACE1-I/D...
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