The role of the erythrocyte on humans with COVID-19

C. Saldanha

Abstract: COVID-19 is a new out-breaking human disease characterized by a severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). A pandemic state was swiftly declared by the World Health Organization due its fast transmissibility and huge human mortality index. After a brief introduction to the COVID -19 disease such as the ways of virus transportation inside the human body, the aim of this revision is to focus on the SARS-CoV2 infected erythrocyte properties which are considered biomarkers of COVID-19 patients and highlight the erythrocyte as a transporter for therapeutic drugs deliver in infected patients.

Series on Biomechanics, Vol.36 No.1 (2022), 39-43
DOI: 10.7546/SB.05.2022

Keywords: membrane Band3 protein; P50, erythrocyte deformability; SARS-CoV2, COVID-19

Date published: 2022-04-12