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. 2020 Jul:140:109686.
doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2020.109686. Epub 2020 Mar 21.

Renin-angiotensin system: The unexpected flaw inside the human immune system revealed by SARS-CoV-2

Luca Roncati  1 , Graziana Gallo  2 , Antonio Manenti  2 , Beniamino Palmieri  2
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Renin-angiotensin system: The unexpected flaw inside the human immune system revealed by SARS-CoV-2

Luca Roncati et al. Med Hypotheses. 2020 Jul.
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After a chronic assumption of ACE inhibitors and AII receptor antagonists a normal cell (on the left) could be hypothetically rearranged into one with higher expression of ACE2 receptors (on the right), so turning particularly receptive and vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2.
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