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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2020

An Open Question: Is It Rational to Inhibit the mTor-Dependent Pathway as COVID-19 Therapy?

Giuseppe Terrazzano, Valentina Rubino, Anna Teresa Palatucci, Angela Giovazzino, Flavia Carriero, Giuseppina Ruggiero

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

42 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  7. Pathophysiology of COVID-19-Related Extrapyramidal Disorders.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024
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  10. Fenofibrate for COVID-19 and related complications as an approach to improve treatment outcomes: the missed key for Holy Grail.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2022
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  13. Systematic Down-Selection of Repurposed Drug Candidates for COVID-19.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  20. Diabetes and COVID-19: The potential role of mTOR.Diabetes research and clinical practice · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Giuseppe TerrazzanoDepartment of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
Valentina RubinoDepartment of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
Anna Teresa PalatucciDepartment of Science, University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy.
Angela GiovazzinoDepartment of Science, University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy.
Flavia CarrieroDepartment of Science, University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy.
Giuseppina RuggieroDepartment of Science, University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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COVID-19Everolimushyper-activationimmune-regulationmTOR

Identifiers

PMID32574238
PMCPMC7273850

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