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ArticleMedical hypotheses2020

Purposing Saikosaponins for the treatment of COVID-19.

Eshak I Bahbah, Ahmed Negida, Mohamed Salah Nabet

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Article in Medical hypotheses, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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17citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  10. Pathomechanisms, therapeutic targets and potent inhibitors of some beta-coronaviruses from bench-to-bedside.Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases · 2021
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  11. Role of phytoconstituents in the management of COVID-19.Chemico-biological interactions · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Eshak I BahbahSchool of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Damietta, Egypt.
Ahmed NegidaSchool of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences, University of Portsmouth, UK.
Mohamed Salah NabetDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Sharkia, Egypt.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Drug RepositioningPandemicsAngiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2Anti-Inflammatory AgentsAntiviral AgentsBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19COVID-19 Drug TreatmentCytokine Release SyndromeHumansImmunologic FactorsLymphocyte ActivationMolecular Docking SimulationOleanolic AcidPeptidyl-Dipeptidase AACE2 protein, humanAngiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2Anti-Inflammatory AgentsAntiviral AgentsImmunologic FactorsOleanolic AcidPeptidyl-Dipeptidase AReceptors, Virussaikosaponin DSaponins

Identifiers

PMID32353743
PMCPMC7179490

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.