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This work was supported by Peking University “Clinical Medicine plus X” Youth Project (PKU2020LCXQ016) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81971012, 81873726).
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Li, Z., Huang, Y. & Guo, X. The brain, another potential target organ, needs early protection from SARS-CoV-2 neuroinvasion. Sci. China Life Sci. 63, 771–773 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-020-1690-y
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