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ArticleMedical hypotheses2020

Immunopharmacological management of COVID-19: Potential therapeutic role of valproic acid.

Gokhan Unal, Bahadir Turan, Yasin Hasan Balcioglu

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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 12 papers.

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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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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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  12. May the Central Nervous System Be Fogged by the Cytokine Storm in COVID-19?: an Appraisal.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Gokhan UnalDepartment of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey.
Bahadir TuranAutism, Mental Special Needs and Rare Diseases Department, Republic of Turkey Ministry of Health, Ankara, Turkey.
Yasin Hasan BalciogluDepartment of Psychiatry, Bakirkoy Prof Mazhar Osman Training and Research Hospital for Psychiatry, Neurology, and Neurosurgery, Istanbul 34147, Turkey. Electronic address: yhasanbalcioglu@gmail.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralValproic AcidAntimanic AgentsBetacoronavirusCOVID-19HumansLithiumSARS-CoV-2Antimanic AgentsLithiumValproic AcidCOVID-19CytokinesImmunomodulationImmunopharmacologyMood stabilizersValproic acidViral replication

Identifiers

PMID32498007
PMCPMC7255327

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