Highly ACE2 Expression in Pancreas May Cause Pancreas Damage After SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Furong Liu; Xin Long; Wenbin Zou; Minghao Fang; Wenjuan Wu; Wei Li; Bixiang Zhang; Wanguang Zhang; Xiaoping Chen; Zhanguo Zhang

spread in China, and now has the tendency to spread all over the world, causing a surge in infections and deaths [6] . So far, there is no specific drug for SARS-CoV-2, and challenges remain. Although there are asymptomatic infected people, who can also be the source of transmission [1, 12] , in clinical practice, patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 mainly suffer from systemic symptoms like fever and fatigue, respiratory symptoms like cough and expectoration, digestive symptoms such as diarrhea [2, 13] . In some patients, especially critically ill cases, damage to other organs, such as the heart, kidneys, and liver, has also been found, which brings great inconvenience to manage patients [2, 14] . As the receptor of SRAS-CoV-2, the . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license It is made available under a author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.