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. 2020 Jul:140:109762.
doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2020.109762. Epub 2020 Apr 22.

The powerful immune system against powerful COVID-19: A hypothesis

Farzad Taghizadeh-Hesary  1 , Hassan Akbari  1   2
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The powerful immune system against powerful COVID-19: A hypothesis

Farzad Taghizadeh-Hesary et al. Med Hypotheses. 2020 Jul.

Abstract

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. Since December 2019, the world has experienced an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Epidemiology, risk factors, and clinical characteristics of patients with COVID-19 have been reported but the factors affecting the immune system against COVID-19 have not been well described. In this article, we provide a novel hypothesis to describe how an increase in cellular adenosine triphosphate (c-ATP) can potentially improve the efficiency of innate and adaptive immune systems to either prevent or fight off COVID-19.

Keywords: ATP; COVID-19; Immune dysfunction.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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