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Colon Cancer and SARS-CoV-2: Impact of ACE2 Expression in Susceptibility to COVID-19
2020-06-13
Abstract excerpt
Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has become a global health emergency. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) interacts with angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) to enter the cells and infects diverse human tissues. It has been reported that a few conditions, including cancer, predispose individuals to SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe form of COVID-19. These findings led us to e...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9349c601-443a-5871-a38f-c73f0b3592b5
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.06.11.146878
