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. 2020 Oct:143:109897.
doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2020.109897. Epub 2020 May 30.

Ursodeoxycholic acid as a candidate therapeutic to alleviate and/or prevent COVID-19-associated cytokine storm

Saleem Abdulrab  1 , Sadeq Al-Maweri  2 , Esam Halboub  3
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Ursodeoxycholic acid as a candidate therapeutic to alleviate and/or prevent COVID-19-associated cytokine storm

Saleem Abdulrab et al. Med Hypotheses. 2020 Oct.
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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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