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ReviewBiomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie2021

4-Aminoquinoline compounds from the Spanish flu to COVID-19.

Roberto Barbosa Bazotte, Sandro Massao Hirabara, Tamires Afonso Duarte Serdan, Raquel Bragante Gritte, Talita Souza-Siqueira, Renata Gorjao, Laureane Nunes Masi, Marina Masetto Antunes, Vinicius Cruzat, Tania Cristina Pithon-Curi and 1 more

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Review in Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Potential of Quinine Sulfate for COVID-19 Treatment and Its Safety Profile: Review.Clinical pharmacology : advances and applications · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Roberto Barbosa BazotteDepartment of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, State University of Maringá, PR, Brazil. Electronic address: rbbazotte@gmail.com.
Sandro Massao HirabaraInterdisciplinary Post-Graduate Program in Health Sciences, Cruzeiro do Sul University, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Electronic address: sandro.hirabara@cruzeirodosul.edu.br.
Tamires Afonso Duarte SerdanInterdisciplinary Post-Graduate Program in Health Sciences, Cruzeiro do Sul University, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Electronic address: tamiresd.serdan@gmail.com.
Raquel Bragante GritteInterdisciplinary Post-Graduate Program in Health Sciences, Cruzeiro do Sul University, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Electronic address: r.gritte@hotmail.com.
Talita Souza-SiqueiraInterdisciplinary Post-Graduate Program in Health Sciences, Cruzeiro do Sul University, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Electronic address: biomedtalitasouza@gmail.com.
Renata GorjaoInterdisciplinary Post-Graduate Program in Health Sciences, Cruzeiro do Sul University, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Electronic address: renata.gorjao@cruzeirodosul.edu.br.
Laureane Nunes MasiInterdisciplinary Post-Graduate Program in Health Sciences, Cruzeiro do Sul University, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Electronic address: laure_masi@hotmail.com.
Marina Masetto AntunesDepartment of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, State University of Maringá, PR, Brazil. Electronic address: antunes.mah@gmail.com.
Vinicius CruzatFaculty of Health, Torrens University Australia, Melbourne, Australia. Electronic address: vinicius.cruzat@laureate.edu.au.
Tania Cristina Pithon-CuriInterdisciplinary Post-Graduate Program in Health Sciences, Cruzeiro do Sul University, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Electronic address: tania.pithon-curi@cruzeirodosul.edu.br.
Rui CuriInterdisciplinary Post-Graduate Program in Health Sciences, Cruzeiro do Sul University, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Electronic address: ruicuri59@gmail.com.
Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul · BRUniversidade Estadual de Maringá · BRTorrens University Australia · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 1918, quinine was used as one of the unscientifically based treatments against the H1N1 virus during the Spanish flu pandemic. Originally, quinine was extracted from the bark of Chinchona trees by South American natives of the Amazon forest, and it has been used to treat fever since the seventeenth century. The recent COVID-19 pandemic caused by Sars-Cov-2 infection has forced researchers to search for ways to prevent and treat this disease. Based on the antiviral potential of two 4-aminoquinoline compounds derived from quinine, known as chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), clinical investigations for treating COVID-19 are being conducted worldwide. However, there are some discrepancies among the clinical trial outcomes.Thus, even after one hundred years of quinine use during the Spanish flu pandemic, the antiviral properties promoted by 4-aminoquinoline compounds remain unclear. The underlying molecular mechanisms by which CQ and HCQ inhibit viral replication open up the possibility of developing novel analogs of these drugs to combat COVID-19 and other viruses.

Indexed as

COVID-19 Drug TreatmentInfluenza Pandemic, 1918-1919AminoquinolinesAntimalarialsAntiviral AgentsCOVID-19HumansSARS-CoV-2Virus Replication4-aminoquinolineAminoquinolinesAntimalarialsAntiviral AgentsAntiviral drugsChloroquineEndosomal escapeHydroxychloroquineLysosomotropic drugsSars-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID33360781
PMCPMC7973050
OpenAlexW3110683764

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