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by navd 2122 days ago
Does this support nicotine as a therapeutic for covid?

It supposedly acts on the RAS and down regulates ace2

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Maybe, I found out a study[1] that suggest that nicotine helps in the vascular metabolism of bradykinin. I'm no researcher neither understand a lot o biology, but it could be a hint

[1]: https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpregu.000...