Lung-Centric Inflammation of COVID-19: Potential Modulation by Vitamin D
SARS-CoV-2 infects the respiratory tract and leads to the disease entity, COVID-19. Accordingly, the lungs bear the greatest pathologic burden with the major cause of death being respiratory failure. However, organs remote from the initial site of infection (e.g., kidney, heart) are not spared, part...
Main Authors: | Hana. M. A. Fakhoury, Peter R. Kvietys, Ismail Shakir, Hashim Shams, William B. Grant, Khaled Alkattan |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2021-06-01
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Series: | Nutrients |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/7/2216 |
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