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Neurological Insights of COVID-19 Pandemic by Das, Gaurav; Mukherjee, Nabanita; Ghosh, Surajit is a Neuroscience article available to read on EtoBox.
The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which was identified after a recent outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, has kept the whole world in tenterhooks due to its severe life-threatening nature of the infection. The virus is unlike its previous counterparts, SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, or anything the world has encountered before both in terms of virulence and severity of the infection. If scientific reports relevant to the SARS-CoV-2 virus are noted, it can be seen that the virus owes much of its killer properties to its unique structure that has a stronger binding affinity with the human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (hACE2) protein, which the viruses utilize as an entry point to gain accesses to its hosts. Recent reports suggest that it is not just the lung that the virus may be targeting; the human brain may soon emerge as the new abode of the virus. Already instances of patients with COVID-19 have been reported with mild (anosmia and ageusia) to severe (encephalopathy) neurological manifestations, and if that is so, then it gives us more reasons to be frightened of this killer virus. Keeping in mind that the situation does not worsen from here, immediate awareness and more thor
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- Author
- Das, Gaurav; Mukherjee, Nabanita; Ghosh, Surajit
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society; American Chemical Society (ACS) (ISSN 1948-7193)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Neuroscience (Life Sciences)