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ArticleJournal of the neurological sciences2020

Silencing of immune activation with methotrexate in patients with COVID-19.

Farinaz Safavi, Avindra Nath

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Article in Journal of the neurological sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Farinaz SafaviSection of Infections of the Nervous System, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America.
Avindra NathSection of Infections of the Nervous System, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America. Electronic address: natha@ninds.nih.gov.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · US

Funding

Neuropathogenesis of Retroviral InfectionsZIANS003130 · NINDS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE · PI NATH, AVINDRA · 2011 to 2025
$73.7M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansImmunosuppressive AgentsInflammationMethotrexatePandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Immunosuppressive AgentsMethotrexate

Identifiers

PMID32471659
PMCPMC7247505
OpenAlexW3029035097

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.