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ReviewStem cell reviews and reports2021

Stem Cell Therapy Potency in Personalizing Severe COVID-19 Treatment.

Arefeh Basiri, Fatemeh Mansouri, Arezo Azari, Parviz Ranjbarvan, Fateme Zarein, Arash Heidari, Ali Golchin

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Review in Stem cell reviews and reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Arefeh BasiriDepartment of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Fatemeh MansouriRegenerative Medicine Group (REMED), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran.
Arezo AzariRegenerative Medicine Group (REMED), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran.
Parviz RanjbarvanRegenerative Medicine Group (REMED), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran.
Fateme ZareinRegenerative Medicine Group (REMED), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran.
Arash HeidariRegenerative Medicine Group (REMED), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran.
Ali GolchinRegenerative Medicine Group (REMED), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran. agolchin.vet10@yahoo.com.ORCID 0000-0001-8661-5046
Urmia University · IRUniversal Scientific Education and Research Network · IRIsfahan University of Medical Sciences · IRTarbiat Modares University · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Currently, there are no specific and efficient vaccines or drugs for COVID-19, particularly in severe cases. A wide range of variations in the clinical symptoms of different patients attributed to genomic differences. Therefore, personalized treatments seem to play a critical role in improving these symptoms and even similar conditions. Prompted by the uncertainties in the area of COVID-19 therapies, we reviewed the published papers and concepts to gather and provide useful information to clinicians and researchers interested in personalized medicine and cell-based therapy. One novel aspect of this study focuses on the potential application of personalized medicine in treating severe cases of COVID-19. However, it is theoretical, as any real-world examples of the use of genuinely personalized medicine have not existed yet. Nevertheless, we know that stem cells, especially MSCs, have immune-modulatory effects and can be stored for future personalized medicine applications. This theory has been conjugated with some evidence that we review in the present study. Besides, we discuss the importance of personalized medicine and its possible aspects in COVID-19 treatment, then review the cell-based therapy studies for COVID-19 with a particular focus on stem cell-based therapies as a primary personalized tool medicine. However, the idea of cell-based therapy has not been accepted by several scientific communities due to some concerns of lack of satisfactory clinical studies; still, the MSCs and their clinical outcomes have been revealed the safety and potency of this therapeutic approach in several diseases, especially in the immune-mediated inflammatory diseases and some incurable diseases. Promising outcomes have resulted in that clinical studies are going to continue.

Indexed as

Cell- and Tissue-Based TherapyCOVID-19 Drug TreatmentMesenchymal Stem Cell TransplantationCOVID-19HumansMesenchymal Stem CellsSARS-CoV-2Cell-based therapyCOVID-19Personalized medicineStem cell

Identifiers

PMID33511518
PMCPMC7842180
OpenAlexW3124572059

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