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Metformin and COVID‐19: A novel deal of an old drug

2020; Wiley; Volume: 92; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/jmv.25958

1096-9071

Amr Ahmed El–Arabey, Mohnad Abdalla,

Dietary Effects on Health

Journal of Medical VirologyVolume 92, Issue 11 p. 2293-2294 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Metformin and COVID-19: A novel deal of an old drug Amr Ahmed EL-Arabey, Corresponding Author Amr Ahmed EL-Arabey [email protected] [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0003-0420-7191 Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt Correspondence Amr Ahmed EL-Arabey, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. Email: [email protected] and [email protected] Mohnad Abdalla, Department of Biology, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Qingdao, 266101 Shandong, China. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorMohnad Abdalla, Corresponding Author Mohnad Abdalla [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-1682-5547 Department of Biology, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Qingdao, Shandong, China Correspondence Amr Ahmed EL-Arabey, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. Email: [email protected] and [email protected] Mohnad Abdalla, Department of Biology, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Qingdao, 266101 Shandong, China. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author Amr Ahmed EL-Arabey, Corresponding Author Amr Ahmed EL-Arabey [email protected] [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0003-0420-7191 Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt Correspondence Amr Ahmed EL-Arabey, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. Email: [email protected] and [email protected] Mohnad Abdalla, Department of Biology, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Qingdao, 266101 Shandong, China. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorMohnad Abdalla, Corresponding Author Mohnad Abdalla [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-1682-5547 Department of Biology, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Qingdao, Shandong, China Correspondence Amr Ahmed EL-Arabey, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. Email: [email protected] and [email protected] Mohnad Abdalla, Department of Biology, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Qingdao, 266101 Shandong, China. 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