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COMMENTARY

Long COVID-19 and Peripheral Serotonin: A Commentary and Reconsideration

George M Anderson1 Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA;2 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Edwin H Cook3 Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USAORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5114
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Randy D Blakely4 FAU Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute, Department of Biomedical Science, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, FL, USA
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James S Sutcliffe5 Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA;6 Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele7 Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA;8 New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Pages 2169-2172 | Received 31 Jan 2024, Accepted 02 Apr 2024, Published online: 10 Apr 2024

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