Vitamin D regulates COVID-19 associated severity by suppressing the NLRP3 inflammasome pathway

• Bariaa Khalil,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Narjes Saheb Sharif-Askari,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Shirin Hafezi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Fatemeh Saheb Sharif-Askari,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliations Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, College of Pharmacy, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Fatme Al Anouti,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliations College of Natural and Health Sciences, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, ASPIRE Precision Medicine Research Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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• Qutayba Hamid,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Meakins-Christie Laboratories, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Rabih Halwani

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rhalwani@sharjah.ac.ae

  Affiliations Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Prince Abdullah Ben Khaled Celiac Disease Research Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6516-7771

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