Epigenetic markers as predictors of neurodegeneration in long COVID survivors

Ali  Aghajan; Seyed Ali  Hosseini; Shahab Mahmoudvand

doi:10.61882/jcbior.6.2.315

Authors

Ali Aghajan Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, D-20355, Hamburg, Germany
Seyed Ali Hosseini Student Research Committee, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
Shahab Mahmoudvand Department of Virology, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Science, Hamadan, Iran http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9155-9939

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61882/jcbior.6.2.315

Keywords:

Long COVID, SARS CoV 2, Epigenetic, Neurodegeneration, Biological aging

Abstract

No abstract.

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