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Comment
. 2020 Jun 4;55(6):2001261.
doi: 10.1183/13993003.01261-2020. Print 2020 Jun.

COVID-19 and nicotine as a mediator of ACE-2

Janice M Leung  1   2 , Chen Xi Yang  1 , Don D Sin  3   2
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Comment

COVID-19 and nicotine as a mediator of ACE-2

Janice M Leung et al. Eur Respir J. .

Abstract

α7-nAChR may upregulate ACE-2 https://bit.ly/2xS0cfT

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: J.M. Leung has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: C.X. Yang has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: D.D. Sin reports grants from Merck, personal fees for advisory board work from Sanofi-Aventis and Regeneron, grants and personal fees for lectures from Boehringer Ingelheim and AstraZeneca, personal fees for lectures and advisory board worm from Novartis, outside the submitted work.

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Transcriptome profiles generated through RNA-Seq of airway epithelial cells demonstrated a significant positive correlation between ACE2 and CHRNA7 expression.
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