Does COVID19 Infect the Brain? If So, Smokers Might Be at a Higher Risk

Is nicotine exposure linked to cardiopulmonary vulnerability to COVID-19 in the general population?

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Implications of COVID-19 for patients with pre-existing digestive diseases

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Nicotine and the Renin-Angiotensin System

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Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 in the Rostral Ventrolateral Medulla Regulates Cholinergic Signaling and Cardiovascular and Sympathetic Responses in Hypertensive Rats

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Pathogenic human coronavirus infections: causes and consequences of cytokine storm and immunopathology

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Genomic Analysis of the Emergence, Evolution, and Spread of Human Respiratory RNA Viruses

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Alternative Roles of STAT3 and MAPK Signaling Pathways in the MMPs Activation and Progression of Lung Injury Induced by Cigarette Smoke Exposure in ACE2 Knockout Mice

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Co-activation of VTA DA and GABA neurons mediates nicotine reinforcement

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Local Renin-Angiotensin II Systems, Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme and its Homologue ACE2: Their Potential Role in the Pathogenesis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases, Pulmonary Hypertension and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

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Cigarette Smoke Decreases Innate Responses of Epithelial Cells to Rhinovirus Infection

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Cigarette Smoking and Hypertension

(2010) A. Virdis et al.   CURRENT PHARMACEUTICAL DESIGN

Nicotine addiction and nicotinic receptors: lessons from genetically modified mice

(2010) Jean-Pierre Changeux   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

The Allen Brain Atlas: 5 years and beyond

(2009) Allan R. Jones et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Angiotensins in Alzheimer's disease – friend or foe?

(2009) Patrick G. Kehoe et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Differential Regulation of the Renin-Angiotensin System by Nicotine in WKY and SHR Glia

(2008) Merari F. R. Ferrari et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection Causes Neuronal Death in the Absence of Encephalitis in Mice Transgenic for Human ACE2

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A variant associated with nicotine dependence, lung cancer and peripheral arterial disease

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