New research suggests that levels of the sex hormones estrogen and testosterone could contribute to infection risk and severity of COVID-19.
Tag: ACE2 expression
Sex Hormones Contribute to Sex Differences in COVD-19
Article title: Sex steroids skew ACE2 expression in human airway: a contributing factor to sex differences in COVID-19? Authors: Rama Satyanarayana Raju Kalidhindi, Niyati A. Borkar, Nilesh Sudhakar Ambhore, Christina M. Pabelick, Y. S. Prakash, Venkatachalem Sathish From the authors:…
Why Does COVID-19 Seem to Spare Children?
The findings, published today
Different approach needed to ‘buy time’ and tackle COVID-19
A prominent Australian pharmacologist has called for a new approach to treating COVID-19 as hopes fade of finding an effective vaccine or antiviral before the end of the year.