The route of SARS-CoV-2 to brain infection: have we been barking up the wrong tree?

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 17 - Trang 1-4 - 2022
Rafal Butowt1, Christopher S. von Bartheld2
1L. Rydygier Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland
2Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, School of Medicine, Reno, USA

Tóm tắt

This letter draws attention to recent work supporting the notion that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may use the nervus terminalis rather than the olfactory nerve as a shortcut route from the nasal cavity to infect the brain.

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