Diabetes and coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2): Molecular mechanism of Metformin intervention and the scientific basis of drug repurposing

• Elizabeth Varghese ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Elizabeth Varghese, Samson Mathews Samuel

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Education City, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar

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• Samson Mathews Samuel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Elizabeth Varghese, Samson Mathews Samuel

  * E-mail: sms2016@qatar-med.cornell.edu (SMS); dib2015@qatar-med.cornell.edu (DB)

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Education City, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5541-6623

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• Alena Liskova,

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University in Bratislava, Martin, Slovakia

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• Peter Kubatka,

  Affiliation Department of Medical Biology, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University in Bratislava, Martin, Slovakia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4312-5076

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• Dietrich Büsselberg

  * E-mail: sms2016@qatar-med.cornell.edu (SMS); dib2015@qatar-med.cornell.edu (DB)

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Education City, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5196-3366

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