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. 2022 Nov 5:10.1111/febs.16662. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1111/febs.16662

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Fig. 18 — Chemical structure of dexamethasone, a corticosteroid that acts as an immunosuppressant and reduces inflammation. Dexamethasone is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, some cancers, and systemic lupus erythematosus and was investigated as a treatment to improve COVID‐19 patient outcomes in the early stages of the COVID‐19 pandemic [202].