Carotenoids as potential inhibitors of TNFα in COVID-19 treatment

• Farzaneh Taghipour,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, School of Biology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

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• Nasrin Motamed ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: motamed2@khayam.ut.ac.ir (NM); s.mahdian63@gmail.com (SM)

  Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, School of Biology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6892-423X

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• Mohammad Ali Amoozegar,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Biology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

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• Maryam Shahhoseini,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, School of Biology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran, Reproductive Epidemiology Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran

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• Soodeh Mahdian

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: motamed2@khayam.ut.ac.ir (NM); s.mahdian63@gmail.com (SM)

  Affiliations Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran, Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

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