Commentary:Can FXR serve as a potential target for COVID-19 prevention?

摘要

A research article has been accepted by Nature very recently entitled:FXR inhibition may protect from SARS-CoV-2 infection by reducing ACE2.This is a multiple-author study by 80 scientists from 40 different research units in UK,Germany,Greece,USA,Austria,Sweden,and Norway,with Teresa Brevini as the 1st author and one of the senior authors^(1).The pre-print of this study was posted online back to June 7,2021(bioRxiv).