Treatments that target the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) don’t improve outcomes in adult patients hospitalized with acute COVID-19. Three separate trials of different RAAS-related ...
Scientists have discovered a new generation of angiotensin receptor blockers that may be used to treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In silico docking and molecular dynamics studies have shown ...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused millions of deaths throughout the world, which has provoked intense research into the pathogenetic mechanism behind this disease. A new study ...
Studies in animals have shown that ACE2 is used by coronaviruses as a functional receptor. ARBs and ACE inhibitors increase the expression of ACE2; a hypothesis that their use may modify ...