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ArticleMedicine in drug discovery2020

Mesenchymal stem cells and management of COVID-19 pneumonia.

Su M Metcalfe

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Article in Medicine in drug discovery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 98 papers.

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98 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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Su M MetcalfeUniversity of Cambridge, Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human coronavirus, hCoV-19, is highly pathogenic with severe pneumonia associated with rapid virus replication. Arising in Wuhan China December 2019, the current COVID-19 epidemic has rapidly grown with person-to-person infection expanding to become a global health emergency now on pandemic scale. Governments will not be able to minimise both deaths from COVID-19 and the economic impact of viral spread in mitigation of this current COVID-19 pandemic, according to Anderson et al. 2020 [1], Keeping mortality as low as possible will be the highest priority for individuals; hence governments must put in place measures to ameliorate the inevitable economic downturn. The current global picture shows small chains of transmission in many countries and large chains resulting in extensive spread in a few countries, such as Italy, Iran, South Korea, and Japan. Most countries are likely to have spread of COVID-19, at least in the early stages, before any mitigation measures have an impact. The scale of the problem is massive. Here I consider new approaches to improve patient's biological resistance to COVID-19 using stem cells, and how benefit might be scaled and simplified using synthetic stem cells to meet logistical needs within a short time frame.

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Corona virusCytokine stormLeukaemia inhibitory factorMesenchymal stem cellsSynthetic stem cells

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PMID32296777
PMCPMC7147223

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