COVID-19 and Central Nervous System: Entry Routes And

Nooshin Ahmadirad; Zahra Ghasemi

doi:10.32598/bcn.11.covid19.2360.1

COVID-19 and Central Nervous System: Entry Routes And

Basic Clin Neurosci. 2020 Mar-Apr;11(2):217-224. doi: 10.32598/bcn.11.covid19.2360.1. Epub 2020 Jul 8.

Authors

Nooshin Ahmadirad¹, Zahra Ghasemi²

Affiliations

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: ACE; COVID-19; Hypoxia; Neural pathway.

Publication types

Review