Endothelial cell infection and endotheliitis in COVID-19 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30937-5/fulltext > Although the virus uses ACE2 receptor expressed by pneumocytes in the > epithelial alveolar lining to infect the host, thereby causing lung injury, > the ACE2 receptor is also widely expressed on endothelial cells, which > traverse multiple organs.3 > Recruitment of immune cells, either by direct viral infection of the > endothelium or immune-mediated, can result in widespread endothelial > dysfunction associated with apoptosis (figure D).
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