ReviewCellular signalling2020
Drugs targeting various stages of the SARS-CoV-2 life cycle: Exploring promising drugs for the treatment of Covid-19.
Review in Cellular signalling, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 74 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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74 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 155 citations in OpenAlex.
- Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Infection on Cognitive Function: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- Antimicrobial peptides as computational candidates for SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease inhibition.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Systematic Modeling of Covalent Inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease and Its Mutants.ACS catalysis · 2026Article
- Tea Polyphenols in the COVID-19 Era: Mechanistic Insights and Translational Challenges.Current issues in molecular biology · 2026Review
- Impact of early and delayed azvudine administration on COVID-19 mortality: a retrospective study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Inhaled Dry Powder of Antiviral Agents: A Promising Approach to Treating Respiratory Viral Pathogens.Viruses · 2025Review
- Mechanistic Insights into Nitrile and Alkyne Covalent Inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease.ACS catalysis · 2025Article
- Antivirals in COVID-19: A Focus on Pediatric Cardiac Patients.The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2025Review
- Sustainable and technically smart spectrophotometric determination of PAXLOVID: a comprehensive ecological and analytical performance rating.BMC chemistry · 2024Article
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- The Evaluation of Drugs as Potential Modulators of the Trafficking and Maturation of ACE2, the SARS-CoV-2 Receptor.Biomolecules · 2024Article
- In vitro and in vivo validation of the antiviral effect of hCypA against SARS-CoV-2 via binding to the RBD of spike protein.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2024Article
- COVID-19 Variants and Vaccine Development.Viruses · 2024Review
- Utility of sustainable ratio derivative spectrophotometry for the concurrent assay of synergistic repurposed drugs for COVID-19 infections; Insilico pharmacokinetics proof.BMC chemistry · 2024Article
- Setomimycin as a potential molecule for COVID‑19 target: in silico approach and in vitro validation.Molecular diversity · 2023Article
- More or less deadly? A mathematical model that predicts SARS-CoV-2 evolutionary direction.Computers in biology and medicine · 2023Article
- An integrated metabolomic and proteomic approach for the identification of covalent inhibitors of the main protease (MTalanta · 2023Article
- Theranostic efficiency of biosurfactants against COVID-19 and similar viruses - A review.Journal of drug delivery science and technology · 2022Review
- Analysis of cell-nanoparticle interactions and imaging ofNanoscale advances · 2022Article
- Targeting natural products against SARS-CoV-2.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Review
14 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus that causes the potentially lethal Covid-19 respiratory tract infection. It does so by binding to host cell angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptors, leading to endocytosis with the receptor, and subsequently using the host cell's machinery to replicate copies of itself and invade new cells. The extent of the spread of infection in the body is dependent on the pattern of ACE2 expression and overreaction of the immune system. Additionally, by inducing an imbalance in the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) and the loss of ACE2 would favour the progression of inflammatory and thrombotic processes in the lungs. No drug or vaccine has yet been approved to treat human coronaviruses. Hundreds of clinical trials on existing approved drugs from different classes acting on a multitude of targets in the virus life cycle are ongoing to examine potential effectiveness for the prevention and treatment of the infection. This review summarizes the SARS-CoV-2 virus life cycle in the host cell and provides a biological and pathological point of view for repurposed and experimental drugs for this novel coronavirus. The viral life cycle provides potential targets for drug therapy.
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