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ReviewJournal of neurovirology2020

COVID-19 virus may have neuroinvasive potential and cause neurological complications: a perspective review.

Ali Sepehrinezhad, Ali Shahbazi, Sajad Sahab Negah

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Review in Journal of neurovirology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
33citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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

33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Effects of COVID-19 on the contrast sensitivity.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologica · 2025
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  3. Use of chronic medications and risk of death due to COVID-19 in hospitalised patients.European journal of hospital pharmacy : science and practice · 2024
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  5. Enteric nervous system as a target and source of SARS-CoV-2 and other viral infections.American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology · 2023
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  11. Effects and Causes of Detraining in Athletes Due to COVID-19: A Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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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 at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ali SepehrinezhadDepartment of Neuroscience, Faculty of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Tehran, Iran.
Ali ShahbaziDepartment of Neuroscience, Faculty of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Tehran, Iran.
Sajad Sahab NegahNeuroscience Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences , Mashhad, Iran. sahabnegahs@mums.ac.ir.ORCID 0000-0002-2242-9794
Iran University of Medical Sciences · IRMashhad University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was reported at the end of 2019 in China for the first time and has rapidly spread throughout the world as a pandemic. Since COVID-19 causes mild to severe acute respiratory syndrome, most studies in this field have only focused on different aspects of pathogenesis in the respiratory system. However, evidence suggests that COVID-19 may affect the central nervous system (CNS). Given the outbreak of COVID-19, it seems necessary to perform investigations on the possible neurological complications in patients who suffered from COVID-19. Here, we reviewed the evidence of the neuroinvasive potential of coronaviruses and discussed the possible pathogenic processes in CNS infection by COVID-19 to provide a precise insight for future studies.

Indexed as

PandemicsAtaxiaBetacoronavirusBlood-Brain BarrierBrain EdemaCentral Nervous SystemCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Encephalitis, ViralEpilepsyHumansMultiple SclerosisPneumonia, ViralPrevalenceSARS-CoV-2Severe Acute Respiratory SyndromeCoronavirusCOVID-19Nervous systemNeuroinvasionTransmission routes

Identifiers

PMID32418055
PMCPMC7229881
OpenAlexW3025860919

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