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. 2020 Jul:140:109778.
doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2020.109778. Epub 2020 Apr 22.

N-acetyl-cysteine may prevent COVID-19-associated cytokine storm and acute respiratory distress syndrome

Stelios F Assimakopoulos  1 , Markos Marangos  2
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N-acetyl-cysteine may prevent COVID-19-associated cytokine storm and acute respiratory distress syndrome

Stelios F Assimakopoulos et al. Med Hypotheses. 2020 Jul.
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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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