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SUBMITTER: Chana-Cuevas P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7527541 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chaná-Cuevas Pedro P Salles-Gándara Philippe P Rojas-Fernandez Alejandro A Salinas-Rebolledo Constanza C Milán-Solé Anna A
Frontiers in neurology 20200917
Considering their current burden and epidemiological projections, nowadays Parkinson's disease and the COVID-19 pandemic are two key health problems. There is evidence of the pathogenic role of neurotropic viruses in neurodegenerative diseases and coronaviruses are neurotropic, with some of them selectively targeting the basal ganglia. Moreover, some authors demonstrated the longevity of these viruses in the affected cells of the nervous system for long periods. Coronavirus was detected in brain ...[more]