Focusing on Basic Sciences in Medicine for the Treatment of COVID-19

Document Type : Letter to Editor

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1 Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Dentistary

2 Neuroscience Research Center, Baqyiatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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