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‎ 10.32598/bcn.11.covid19.2360.1

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COVID-19 and Central Nervous System: Entry Routes And Probable Damages
Nooshin Ahmadirad * 1, Zahra Ghasemi2
1- Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
2- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
Abstract:  
Awareness of the current outbreak of Coronavirus Disease - 2019 (COVID-19) affecting the nervous system and identifying its possible ways to enter the Central Nervous System (CNS) are critical for the prevention and treatment of the disease. Hence, the CNS implications of the COVID-19 since the spread of the virus were reviewed in this study.
Keywords: COVID-19, Hypoxia, Neural pathway, ACE
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Type of Study: Review | Subject: Clinical Neuroscience
Received: 2020/05/1 | Accepted: 2020/06/24 | Published: 2020/07/8
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