Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Editorial
. 2021 May;26(5):404-405.
doi: 10.1111/resp.14039. Epub 2021 Mar 16.

Gateway to the lungs: Viral entry receptors and susceptibility to COVID-19

Hugo Farne  1 , Aran Singanayagam  2
Affiliations
Editorial

Gateway to the lungs: Viral entry receptors and susceptibility to COVID-19

Hugo Farne et al. Respirology. 2021 May.

Abstract

See related article

Keywords: ACE2; SARS-CoV-2; angiotensin-converting enzyme 2; coronavirus disease, COVID-19; viral infection.

PubMed Disclaimer

Comment on

References

    1. Williamson EJ, Walker AJ, Bhaskaran K, Bacon S, Bates C, Morton CE, Curtis HJ, Mehrkar A, Evans D, Inglesby P et al. Factors associated with COVID‐19‐related death using OpenSAFELY. Nature 2020; 584: 430–6. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Zhou F, Yu T, Du R, Fan G, Liu Y, Liu Z, Xiang J, Wang Y, Song B, Gu X et al. Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID‐19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study. Lancet 2020; 395: 1054–62. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Halpin DM, Faner R, Sibila O, Badia JR, Agusti A. Do chronic respiratory diseases or their treatment affect the risk of SARS‐COV‐2 infection? Lancet Respir. Med. 2020; 8: 436–8. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Terry PD, Heidel RE, Dhand R. Asthma in adult patients with COVID‐19: prevalence and risk of severe disease. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2021. 10.1164/rccm.202008-3266OC. - DOI - PMC - PubMed
    1. Schultze A, Walker AJ, MacKenna B, Morton CE, Bhaskaran K, Brown JP, Rentsch CT, Williamson E, Drysdale H, Croker R et al. Risk of COVID‐19‐related death among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or asthma prescribed inhaled corticosteroids: an observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform. Lancet Respir. Med. 2020; 8: 1106–20. - PMC - PubMed