N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) and COVID-19 treatment: New hopes in old medication

Abstract

N-acetyl cysteine is seen to improve patients with acute respiratory diseases. The recommended pathways, of it's the effect on pulmonary diseases, are its antioxidant capacity through glutathione synthesis (GSH) and following effects on preventing and controlling cytokine storm. These features make it a good candidate to be evaluated for COVID-19 disease as this disease is causing a cytokine storm.

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Naser Hatami, Navid Kalani, Farshid Javdani, Sayyed Reza Ahmadi, Seyed Reza Habibzadeh, Behzad Shahi, Fatemeh Maleki, Neema John Mehramiz, Mahdi Foroughian

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  • EP ID EP689159
  • DOI DOI: 10.47191/ijmra/v3-i9-09
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Naser Hatami, Navid Kalani, Farshid Javdani, Sayyed Reza Ahmadi, Seyed Reza Habibzadeh, Behzad Shahi, Fatemeh Maleki, Neema John Mehramiz, Mahdi Foroughian (2020). N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) and COVID-19 treatment: New hopes in old medication. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Analysis, 3(09), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-689159