Increased galanin-galanin receptor 1 signaling, inflammation, and insulin resistance are associated with affective symptoms and chronic fatigue syndrome due to long COVID

• Wasim Talib Mahdi Al Masoodi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Kufa, Najaf, Iraq, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Al-Ameed, Karbala, Iraq

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• Sami Waheed Radhi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Kufa, Najaf, Iraq

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• Habiba Khdair Abdalsada,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Al-Muthanna University, Samawah, Iraq

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• Mengqi Niu,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Sichuan Provincial Center for Mental Health, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, Key Laboratory of Psychosomatic Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, China

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• Hussein Kadhem Al-Hakeim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Kufa, Najaf, Iraq

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6143-5196

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• Michael Maes

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 770552576@qq.com

  Affiliations Sichuan Provincial Center for Mental Health, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, Key Laboratory of Psychosomatic Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, China, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, Ph.D. Program in Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, Cognitive Fitness and Biopsychological Technology Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Research Institute, Medical University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Kyung Hee University, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, Korea, Research and Innovation Program for the Development of MU – PLOVDIV–(SRIPD-MUP), Creation of a Network of Research Higher Schools, National Plan for Recovery and Sustainability, European Union – Next Generation EU, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

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