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. 2021 Oct:155:110662.
doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2021.110662. Epub 2021 Aug 10.

Prolactin and susceptibility to COVID-19 infection

Fatemeh Mirzaei  1 , Alireza Tavilani  2 , Zahra Asefy  3 , Ebrahim Abbasi  4
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Prolactin and susceptibility to COVID-19 infection

Fatemeh Mirzaei et al. Med Hypotheses. 2021 Oct.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; Prolactin; Smoking.

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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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