ACE and acute respiratory distress syndrome: In normal healthy subjects, it was reproducibly below the limit of quantification [179,180], differently, both in ex vivo treatments of plasma samples with human rACE2 [115,181] and in ARDS patients, it was markedly increased (Ang (1–9) ranged between 100–3080 pg/mL) [92], suggesting both that the dominating activity of ACE in plasma of healthy subjects is overcome by that of ACE2 in ARDS patients.