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ArticleLife sciences2020

Comment on Melatonin as a potential adjuvant treatment for COVID-19.

Emilio A Herrera, Alejandro González-Candia

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Article in Life sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
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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

10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Long-lasting cardiovascular responses to gestation at high altitude: lessons from a sheep model.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. Melatonin for the Early Treatment of COVID-19: A Narrative Review of Current Evidence and Possible Efficacy.Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists · 2021
    Review
  6. Review
  7. Pineal hormone melatonin as an adjuvant treatment for COVID‑19 (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2021
    Review
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  10. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Emilio A HerreraLaboratorio de Función y Reactividad Vascular, Programa de Fisiopatología, ICBM, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Chile. Electronic address: eaherrera@uchile.cl.
Alejandro González-CandiaLaboratorio de Función y Reactividad Vascular, Programa de Fisiopatología, ICBM, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Chile.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

MelatoninPneumonia, ViralBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Melatonin

Identifiers

PMID32360622
PMCPMC7192085

What OpenQuestion holds

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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.