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Receptors for SARS-CoV and How This Knowledge could Help?

Medical studies prove that corona viruses enter the human cells through a receptor called Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2. ACE2 is an exopeptidase which is found on the cell membrane of vessels of the heart or kidneys, also in respiratory cells epithelium and gastrointestinal tract cells. ACE-blockers are long known in medicine and are used for  antihypertensive therapy. Could those antihypertensive drugs be used in the treatment of covid is a question that makes us curious. Until now there are not enough studies that could answer this question, but the therapy with ACE-blockers, angiotensin 2 receptor blockers, ASS and betablockers for heart patients with covid infection is considered to be protective. 
Could we use ACE-blockers as virostatic therapy for covid? In my opinion we should at least try.

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