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ReviewAutoimmunity reviews2020

Transcriptional landscape of SARS-CoV-2 infection dismantles pathogenic pathways activated by the virus, proposes unique sex-specific differences and predicts tailored therapeutic strategies.

Paolo Fagone, Rosella Ciurleo, Salvo Danilo Lombardo, Carmelo Iacobello, Concetta Ilenia Palermo, Yehuda Shoenfeld, Klaus Bendtzen, Placido Bramanti, Ferdinando Nicoletti

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Review in Autoimmunity reviews, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 74 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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74citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

74 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 119 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Use of steroids in COVID-19 patients: A meta-analysis.European journal of pharmacology · 2022
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  3. Severe COVID-19: what have we learned with the immunopathogenesis?Advances in rheumatology (London, England) · 2020
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  17. COVIDomics: The Proteomic and Metabolomic Signatures of COVID-19.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 6 institutions in 5 countries.

Paolo FagoneDepartment of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.
Rosella CiurleoIRCCS Centro Neurolesi Bonino Pulejo, C.da Casazza, 98124 Messina, Italy. Electronic address: rossella.ciurleo@irccsme.it.
Salvo Danilo LombardoCeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Lazarettgasse 14, AKH BT 25.3, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: SLombardo@cemm.oeaw.ac.at.
Carmelo IacobelloUOC Malattie Infettive, AO Cannizzaro, Catania, Italy.
Concetta Ilenia PalermoDepartment of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.
Yehuda ShoenfeldZabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Aviv University, Israel; I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Sechenov University, Russia. Electronic address: shoenfel@post.tau.ac.il.
Klaus BendtzenRigshospitalet University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Placido BramantiIRCCS Centro Neurolesi Bonino Pulejo, C.da Casazza, 98124 Messina, Italy. Electronic address: placido.bramanti@irccsme.it.
Ferdinando NicolettiDepartment of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy. Electronic address: ferdinic@unict.it.
University of Catania · ITCentro Neurolesi Bonino Pulejo · ITAustrian Academy of Sciences · ATOspedale Cannizzaro · ITRigshospitalet · DKSechenov University · RU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) disease (COVID-19) has posed a serious threat to global health. As no specific therapeutics are yet available to control disease evolution, more in-depth understanding of the pathogenic mechanisms induced by SARS-CoV-2 will help to characterize new targets for the management of COVID-19. The present study identified a specific set of biological pathways altered in primary human lung epithelium upon SARS-CoV-2 infection, and a comparison with SARS-CoV from the 2003 pandemic was studied. The transcriptomic profiles were also exploited as possible novel therapeutic targets, and anti-signature perturbation analysis predicted potential drugs to control disease progression. Among them, Mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase (MEK), serine-threonine kinase (AKT), mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and I kappa B Kinase (IKK) inhibitors emerged as candidate drugs. Finally, sex-specific differences that may underlie the higher COVID-19 mortality in men are proposed.

Indexed as

Sex FactorsBetacoronavirusCells, CulturedCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Drug DiscoveryEpithelial CellsFemaleHumansLungMalePandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Severe Acute Respiratory SyndromeTOR Serine-Threonine KinasesMTOR protein, humanTOR Serine-Threonine KinasesBioinformaticsCoronavirusCOVID-19PathogenesisSARSSARS-CoV-2

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PMID32376402
PMCPMC7252184
OpenAlexW3021582812

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