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ArticleVirologica Sinica2017

Antiviral activity of quercetin-3-β-O-D-glucoside against Zika virus infection.

Gary Wong, Shihua He, Vinayakumar Siragam, Yuhai Bi, Majambu Mbikay, Michel Chretien, Xiangguo Qiu

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Article in Virologica Sinica, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 87 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Gary WongSpecial Pathogens Program, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, R3E 3R2, Canada.
Shihua HeSpecial Pathogens Program, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, R3E 3R2, Canada.
Vinayakumar SiragamSpecial Pathogens Program, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, R3E 3R2, Canada.
Yuhai BiShenzhen Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Immunity, State Key Discipline of Infectious Disease, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, 511700, China.
Majambu MbikayFunctional Endoproteolysis Laboratory, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, Montreal, H2W 1R7, Canada.
Michel ChretienFunctional Endoproteolysis Laboratory, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, Montreal, H2W 1R7, Canada.
Xiangguo QiuSpecial Pathogens Program, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, R3E 3R2, Canada. xiangguo.qiu@phac-aspc.gc.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5578-9999
Public Health Agency of Canada · CAOttawa Hospital · CAChinese Academy of Sciences · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Q3G is a natural derivative of quercetin and is already widely used in various foods and drinks. Our results clearly demonstrated that Q3G exerts antiviral activity against ZIKV in both tissue culture and knockout mice, and that post-exposure in vivo treatment with Q3G could have a beneficial effect. In the future, Q3G should be tested in human cell lines (such as Huh-7, HeLa, or K048, a fetal brain neural stem cell line) to provide further data supporting its potential efficacy in humans; in addition, live viral loads or viremia should be tested in treated animals to supplement the survival results observed in this study. Although the treatment regimens will need to be further optimized (i.e., dosage, frequency of treatment, and administration routes), our results support the results of Q3G efficacy studies in nonhuman primates against ZIKV infection. Further studies will also be needed to investigate the mechanism of Q3G antiviral action, in order to obtain valuable insights into the design of novel targets for antiviral therapeutics in the future.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntiviral AgentsChlorocebus aethiopsDisease Models, AnimalMice, KnockoutQuercetinSurvival AnalysisVero CellsViral LoadVirus ReplicationZika VirusZika Virus InfectionAntiviral AgentsisoquercitrinQuercetin

Identifiers

PMID28884445
PMCPMC6598929
OpenAlexW2751422890

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