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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2020

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors Play an Antiviral Action in Patients Affected by Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: A Possible Model Supporting Their Use in the Fight Against SARS-CoV-2.

Sara Galimberti, Mario Petrini, Claudia Baratè, Federica Ricci, Serena Balducci, Susanna Grassi, Francesca Guerrini, Elena Ciabatti, Sandra Mechelli, Antonello Di Paolo and 5 more

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sara GalimbertiDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Mario PetriniDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Claudia BaratèHematology, AOUP, Pisa, Italy.
Federica RicciDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Serena BalducciDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Susanna GrassiDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Francesca GuerriniDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Elena CiabattiDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Sandra MechelliHematology, AOUP, Pisa, Italy.
Antonello Di PaoloDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Chiara BaldiniDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Laura BagliettoDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Lisa MaceraDepartment of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Pietro Giorgio SpeziaDepartment of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Fabrizio MaggiDepartment of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
University of Pisa · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 is the viral agent responsible for the pandemic that in the first months of 2020 caused about 400,000 deaths. Among compounds proposed to fight the SARS-CoV-2-related disease (COVID-19), tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), already effective in Philadelphia-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Ph+ ALL) and chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), have been proposed on the basis of their antiviral action already demonstrated against SARS-CoV-1. Very few cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Ph+ ALL and in CML Italian cohorts; authors suggested that this low rate of infections might depend on the use of TKIs, but the biological causes of this phenomenon remain unknown. In this study, the CML model was used to test if TKIs would sustain or not the viral replication and if they could damage patient immunity. Firstly, the infection and replication rate of torquetenovirus (TTV), whose load is inversely proportional to the host immunological control, have been measured in CML patients receiving nilotinib. A very low percentage of subjects were infected at baseline, and TTV did not replicate or at least showed a low replication rate during the follow-up, with a mean load comparable to the measured one in healthy subjects. Then, after gene expression profiling experiments, we found that several "antiviral" genes, such as

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