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Smoking modulates different secretory subpopulations expressing SARS-CoV-2 entry genes in the nasal and bronchial airways
2021-04-04
Abstract excerpt
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 SARS-CoV-2), which infects host cells with help from the Viral Entry (VE) proteins ACE2, TMPRSS2, and CTSL 1–4 . Proposed risk factors for viral infection, as well as the rate of disease progression, include age 5,6 , sex 7 , chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 7,8 , cancer 9 , and cigarette smoking 10–13 . To invest...
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- Literature Corpus work
- e82cf281-b862-53f6-9fb9-820c3c8acba3
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.03.30.21254564
