Obese patients with NASH have increased hepatic expression of SARS-CoV-2 critical entry points

Marcos F. Fondevila, Maria Mercado-Gómez, Amaia Rodríguez, Maria J. Gonzalez-Rellan, Paula Iruzubieta, Víctor Valentí, Javier Escalada, Markus Schwaninger, Vincent Prevot, Carlos Dieguez, Javier Crespo, Gema Frühbeck, Maria L. Martinez-Chantar*, Ruben Nogueiras

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Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Hepatology
Volume74
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)469-471
Number of pages3
ISSN0168-8278
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 02.2021

Funding

This work has been supported by grants from FEDER/Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovaci?n y Universidades-Agencia Estatal de Investigaci?n (CD: BFU2017-87721; RN: RTI2018-099413-B-I00; MLMC: SAF2017-87301-R; Xunta de Galicia (RN: 2015-CP080 and 2016-PG057) and ED431G 2019/02, Fundaci?n BBVA (RN and MLM), Fundaci?n Atresmedia (RN), and European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes (RN). FIS: PI18/0130. Immunomediatd Nonalcoholic SteaTohepatItis; prevalence and CharacTerization. INSTInCT study (PI: Javier Crespo). Intensificaci?n IDIVAL I-1 (Javier Crespo). The research leading to these results has also received funding from the European Community's H2020 Framework Programme under the following grant: ERC Synergy Grant-2019-WATCH- 810331 to MS, VP and RN. CIBERobn and CIBERehd are initiatives of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) of Spain which is supported by FEDER funds. We thank MINECO for the Severo Ochoa Excellence Accreditation to CIC bioGUNE (SEV-2016-0644).

Research Areas and Centers

  • Academic Focus: Center for Brain, Behavior and Metabolism (CBBM)

Coronavirus related work

  • Research on SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19

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