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ArticleEuropean journal of clinical pharmacology2021

Re-recognizing bromhexine hydrochloride: pharmaceutical properties and its possible role in treating pediatric COVID-19.

Qibo Fu, Xiao Zheng, Yunlian Zhou, Lanfang Tang, Zhimin Chen, Shaoqing Ni

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Article in European journal of clinical pharmacology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 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

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

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. COVID-19 Prophylactic Effect of Bromhexine Hydrochloride.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2026
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  9. Eco-friendly UPLC-MS/MS analysis of possible add-on therapy for COVID-19 in human plasma: Insights of greenness assessment.Microchemical journal : devoted to the application of microtechniques in all branches of science · 2021
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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

6 authors.

Qibo FuNational Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310052, China.
Xiao ZhengState Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, College of Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China.
Yunlian ZhouPulmonary Department, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310052, China.
Lanfang TangPulmonary Department, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310052, China.
Zhimin ChenPulmonary Department, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310052, China. zmchen@zju.edu.cn.
Shaoqing NiNational Clinical Trial Institute, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310052, China. chgcp@zju.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8455-3125

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 81573516
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19 Drug TreatmentAdministration, OralAdolescentBromhexineChildChild, PreschoolClinical Trials as TopicCOVID-19HumansImino PyranosesInhibitory Concentration 50PandemicsSARS-CoV-2Serine EndopeptidasesSerine Proteinase InhibitorsTartratesAT2101BromhexineImino PyranosesSerine EndopeptidasesSerine Proteinase InhibitorsTartratesTMPRSS2 protein, human

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PMID32870380
PMCPMC7459257

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