Melatonin as adjunctive therapy in patients admitted to the Covid-19
Elahe Karimpour-Razkenari, Fahimeh Naderi-Behdani, Ali Salahshoor, Fatemeh Heydari, Abbas Alipour, Afshin Gholipour Baradari
Annals of Medicine and Surgery, doi:10.1016/j.amsu.2022.103492
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