ACE-2 expression in the small airway epithelia of smokers and COPD patients: Implications for COVID-19

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2020, Pages

  Leung, Janice M ^a,b   Yang, Chen X ^a,b   Tam, Anthony ^a,b   Shaipanich, Tawimas ^a,b   Hackett, Tillie Louise ^a,b   Singhera, Gurpreet K ^a,b   Dorscheid, Delbert R ^a,b   Sin, Don D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN CONVERTING ENZYME 2; TRANSCRIPTOME; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE;

ADULT; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; CHRONIC COUGH; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CURRENT SMOKER; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EX-SMOKER; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION RISK; INFORMED CONSENT; LETTER; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM CELL; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG NODULE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NON-SMOKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; RNA EXTRACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SMALL AIRWAY EPITHELIUM; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; THORAX SURGERY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; ACUTE LUNG INJURY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPLICATION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EPITHELIUM; GENETICS; LUNG; METABOLISM; PANDEMIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SMOKING CESSATION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMICS; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RNA-SEQ; SMOKERS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 85083739867     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00688-2020     Document Type: Letter

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