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Letters to the Editor
Hamdy E. A. Ali,1 Ahmed B. Alarabi,2 Zubair A. Karim,3 Victor Rodriguez,3 Keziah R. Hernandez,3 Patricia A. Lozano,2 Medhat S. El-Halawany,1 Fatima Z. Alshbool2 and Fadi T. Khasawneh1.
1Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; 2Department of Pharmacy Practice, Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy, Texas A&M University, Kingsville and 3Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, The University of Texas at El- Paso, El Paso, TX, USA.
Correspondence:
FADI T. KHASAWNEH - fkhasawneh@tamu.edu. doi:10.3324/haematol.2021.279388
Received: June 7, 2021
Accepted: September 8, 2021
Pre-published: September 16, 2021
Disclosure: no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Contributions: FK conceived studies, revised the manuscript, ana- lyzed data; FA conceived studies, revised the manuscript, analyzed data; HA wrote the manuscript, performed research and data analysis; AA, ZK, PL, KH, VR and ME performed research and data analysis.
Funding: research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Awards Number R21ES029345 and R01HL145053. The con- tent is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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