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ReviewVaccines2020

Plant-Based Drugs and Vaccines for COVID-19.

Nasir Mahmood, Sarah Bushra Nasir, Kathleen Hefferon

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Review in Vaccines, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
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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

26 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

3 authors.

Nasir MahmoodDepartment of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2E8, Canada.
Sarah Bushra NasirDepartment of Life Sciences, Abdus Salam School of Sciences, Nusrat Jahan College, Chenab Nagar 35460, Pakistan.
Kathleen HefferonForest Ridge Health Care Inc., Toronto, ON M5J 2V1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-3550-0366

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has turned our own health and the world economy upside down. While several vaccine candidates are currently under development, antivirals with the potential to limit virus transmission or block infection are also being explored. Plant production platforms are being used to generate vaccines and antiviral proteins inexpensively and at mass scale. The following review discusses the biology and origins of the current coronavirus pandemic, and describes some of the conventional, synthetic, and plant-based approaches to address the challenge that it presents to our way of life.

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antibodiesantiviralscoronavirusplantsvaccines

Identifiers

PMID33396667
PMCPMC7823519

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