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ReviewEuropean journal of pharmacology2020

Advances in the possible treatment of COVID-19: A review.

Pankaj Chibber, Syed Assim Haq, Irfan Ahmed, Nusrit Iqbal Andrabi, Gurdarshan Singh

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Review in European journal of pharmacology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

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

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

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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

5 authors.

Pankaj ChibberAcademy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201002, India; PK-PD Toxicology and Formulation Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, 180001, India. Electronic address: pankajchibber@live.com.
Syed Assim HaqAcademy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201002, India; PK-PD Toxicology and Formulation Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, 180001, India.
Irfan AhmedAcademy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201002, India; PK-PD Toxicology and Formulation Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, 180001, India.
Nusrit Iqbal AndrabiAcademy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201002, India; Inflammation Pharmacology Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, 180001, India.
Gurdarshan SinghAcademy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201002, India; PK-PD Toxicology and Formulation Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, 180001, India. Electronic address: singh_gd@iiim.ac.in.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergence of the global pandemic caused by novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has put a challenge to identify or derive the therapeutics for its prevention and treatment. Despite the unprecedented advances in the modern medicinal system, currently, there are no proven effective therapies. However, rapid research on SARS-CoV-2 epidemiology help unveiling some new targets for potential drug therapies. Many drugs have been screened, and even their clinical trials are going on at an exceptional pace. Amongst these RNA-dependent RNA polymerase inhibitors (favipiravir and remdesivir) and steroids especially dexamethasone showed promising effects. The biological agents like tocilizumab, interferons, and convalescent plasma prove to be beneficial in viral clearance. Moreover, many immunomodulatory and viral S protein targeting vaccines have their ongoing clinical trials. The establishment of various in vitro and in vivo models for preclinical studies can additionally help the current research. The volume and the pace of the clinical trials launched to evaluate the safety and efficacy of various agents against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) reflect the need for high-quality evidence for various therapies to be practiced by clinicians. This study aims to sum up all the current advances in the global medicinal system against the COVID-19.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsDrug DevelopmentDrug DiscoveryPandemicsPneumonia, ViralAntiviral AgentsBetacoronavirusCOVID-19COVID-19 Drug TreatmentCOVID-19 VaccinesHumansSARS-CoV-2Viral VaccinesAntiviral AgentsCOVID-19 VaccinesViral VaccinesAntiviralsCOVID-19EpidemiologyTherapeuticsTreatmentsVaccines

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PMID32682787
PMCPMC7366101

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