Article
The scRNA-seq expression profiling of the receptor ACE2 and the cellular protease TMPRSS2 reveals human organs susceptible to COVID-19 infection
2020-04-18
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Summary</h4> <h4>Background</h4> COVID-19 caused by SARA-CoV-2 is a disaster sweeping over 200 countries, and more than 2,150,000 people are suffering from the disease and 140,000 people died. ACE2 is a receptor protein of SARS- CoV-2, and TMPRSS2 promotes virus proliferation and transmission. Some patients developed multiple organ dysfunction syndromes other than lungs. Therefore, studying the viral suscept...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6bb0150e-29fb-5121-aeaf-8dcd6c6c7cf0
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.04.16.045690
