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Role of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) in COVID-19

Critical Care, 2020
An outbreak of pneumonia caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that started in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019 has become a global pandemic.
W. Ni, Xiuwen Yang, Deqing Yang, J. Bao, Ran Li, Yongjiu Xiao, C. Hou, Haibin Wang, Jie Liu, Dong-hong Yang, Yu Xu, Zhaolong Cao, Zhancheng Gao   +12 more
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Variation of Concentrations of Angiotensin II, AngiotensinConverting Enzyme and Matrix Metalloprotease-9 in Tears and Serum of Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy

Oftalʹmologiâ, 2020
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is becoming more and more widespread disease. Investigation of local changes of metabolic pathways in the eye improves our knowledge about diabetic retinopathy pathogenesis and provide perspective for the development of new ...
V. V. Neroev, N. B. Chesnokova, T. A. Pavlenko, T. D. Okhotsimskaya, O. V. Beznos, V. A. Fadeeva, S. V. Struchkova   +6 more
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Angiotensin-converting Enzyme Inhibitors: Can it be a Potential Treatment of Infantile Hemangioma

Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons, 2021
Aims: The aim of the sudy was to evaluate potential role of oral captopril, an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, and in treatment of infantile hemagioma (IH) and report our preliminary results.
Archika Gupta, Shiv Narain Kureel, Anand Pandey, Gurmeet Singh, Akhilesh Kumar, Gaurav Shandilya, Rahul Kumar Rai, Survesh Kumar Gupta   +7 more
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Identification of the SARS-CoV-2 Entry Receptor ACE2 as a Direct Target for Transcriptional Repression by Miz1

Frontiers in Immunology, 2021
Multiple lines of evidence have demonstrated that cigarette smoke or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease upregulates angiotensin-converting enzyme 2, the cellular receptor for the entry of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, which ...
Jing Yang, Edith A. Perez, Changchun Hou, Pin Zhang, Michelle Van Scoyk, Robert A. Winn, Lijun Rong, Jing Liu   +7 more
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Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2: SARS-CoV-2 Receptor and Regulator of the Renin-Angiotensin System

Circulation Research, 2020
ACE2 (angiotensin-converting enzyme 2) has a multiplicity of physiological roles that revolve around its trivalent function: a negative regulator of the renin-angiotensin system, facilitator of amino acid transport, and the severe acute respiratory ...
Mahmoud Gheblawi, Kaiming Wang, A. Viveiros, Quynh Nguyen, J. Zhong, A. Turner, M. Raizada, M. Grant, G. Oudit   +8 more
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A crucial role of angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) in SARS coronavirus–induced lung injury

Nature Network Boston, 2005
During several months of 2003, a newly identified illness termed severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) spread rapidly through the world. A new coronavirus (SARS-CoV) was identified as the SARS pathogen, which triggered severe pneumonia and acute ...
K. Kuba, Y. Imai, Shuan Rao, Hong Gao, F. Guo, Bin Guan, Yi Huan, Peng‐fei Yang, Yanli Zhang, Wei Deng, L. Bao, Binlin Zhang, Guang Liu, Z. Wang, M. Chappell, Yan-xin Liu, D. Zheng, A. Leibbrandt, T. Wada, Arthur S Slutsky, De-Pei Liu, C. Qin, Chengyu Jiang, J. Penninger   +23 more
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Whey-derived peptides interactions with ACE by molecular docking as a potential predictive tool of natural ACE inhibitors [PDF]

, 2020
Several milk/whey derived peptides possess high in vitro angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory activity. However, in some cases, poor correlation between the in vitro ACE inhibitory activity and the in vivo antihypertensive activity has been ...
Chamata, Yara, Jauregi, Paula, Watson, Kimberly A.   +2 more
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Angiotensin‐converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), SARS‐CoV‐2 and the pathophysiology of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19)

Journal of Pathology, 2020
Angiotensin‐converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) has been established as the functional host receptor for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), the virus responsible for the current devastating worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019
A. Bourgonje, A. Abdulle, Wim Timens, J. Hillebrands, G. Navis, Sanne J Gordijn, M. Bolling, Gerard Dijkstra, A. Voors, A. Osterhaus, Peter H. J. van der Voort, D. J. Mulder, H. van Goor   +12 more
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Nasal Gene Expression of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 in Children and Adults.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2020
This study compares angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) gene expression, which has been associated with SARS-CoV-2 cell entry, in the nasal epithelium of children vs adults.
S. Bunyavanich, Anh N. Do, A. Vicencio
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Soluble angiotensin-converting enzyme 2: a potential approach for coronavirus infection therapy?

Clinical science, 2020
A new coronavirus, referred to as SARS-CoV-2, is responsible for the recent outbreak of severe respiratory disease. This outbreak first detected in Wuhan, China in December 2019, has spread to other regions of China and to 25 other countries as of ...
D. Batlle, J. Wysocki, Karla J. F. Satchell   +2 more
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