Editorial: Nicotine and SARS-CoV-2: COVID-19 may be a disease of the nicotinic cholinergic system

Farsalinos, Konstantinos; Niaura, Raymond; Le Houezec, Jacques; Barbouni, Anastasia; Tsatsakis, Aristidis; Kouretas, Demetrios; Vantarakis, Apostolos; Poulas, Konstantinos

doi:10.1016/j.toxrep.2020.04.012

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Editorial: Nicotine and SARS-CoV-2: COVID-19 may be a disease of the nicotinic cholinergic system

Published in Toxicology Reports • Jan 1, 2020

Authors:

Konstantinos Farsalinos

Raymond Niaura

Jacques Le Houezec

Abstract

Cigarette smoking has many serious negative health consequences. The relationship between smoking and SARS-CoV-2 infection is controversial, specifically whether smokers are at increased risk of infection. We investigated the impact of cigarette smoke on ACE2 isoform expression and SARS-CoV-2 infect...

Subject

Nicotine

Flow cytometry

Immunology

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