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ArticlePhytotherapy research : PTR2020

Can Hypericum perforatum (SJW) prevent cytokine storm in COVID-19 patients?

Pellegrino Masiello, Michela Novelli, Pascale Beffy, Marta Menegazzi

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Article in Phytotherapy research : PTR, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Pellegrino MasielloDepartment of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Michela NovelliDepartment of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Pascale BeffyInstitute of Clinical Physiology, CNR, Pisa, Italy.
Marta MenegazziDepartment of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, Biochemistry Section, School of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1310-9227
University of Pisa · ITIstituto di Fisiologia Clinica · ITUniversity of Verona · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsHypericumPandemicsPneumonia, ViralBetacoronavirusCOVID-19CytokinesHumansPhytotherapySARS-CoV-2Cytokines

Identifiers

PMID32501634
PMCPMC7300500
OpenAlexW3033398062

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.