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ReviewCells2021

Thymoquinone: A Tie-Breaker in SARS-CoV2-Infected Cancer Patients?

Sawsan Elgohary, Aya A Elkhodiry, Nada S Amin, Ulrike Stein, Hend M El Tayebi

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Review in Cells, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
6.0field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 25 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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Sawsan ElgoharyMolecular Pharmacology Research Group, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, German University in Cairo, 11835 Cairo, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-1655-2665
Aya A ElkhodiryMolecular Pharmacology Research Group, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, German University in Cairo, 11835 Cairo, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0001-5684-0242
Nada S AminMolecular Pharmacology Research Group, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, German University in Cairo, 11835 Cairo, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-9541-549X
Ulrike SteinExperimental and Clinical Research Center, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7006-282X
Hend M El TayebiMolecular Pharmacology Research Group, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, German University in Cairo, 11835 Cairo, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-6896-6018
German University in Cairo · EGGerman Cancer Research Center · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2(severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2) pandemic, arace to develop a vaccine has been initiated, considering the massive and rather significant economic and healthcare hits that this virus has caused. The pathophysiology occurring following COVID-19(coronavirus disease-2019) infection has givenhints regarding the supportive and symptomatic treatments to establish for patients, as no specific anti-SARS-CoV-2 is available yet. Patient symptoms vary greatly and range from mild symptoms to severe fatal complications. Supportive treatments include antipyretics, antiviral therapies, different combinations of broad-spectrum antibiotics, hydroxychloroquine and plasma transfusion. Unfortunately, cancer patients are at higher risk of viral infection and more likely to develop serious complications due to their immunocompromised state, the fact that they are already administering multiple medications, as well as combined comorbidity compared to the general population. It may seem impossible to find a drug that possesses both potent antiviral and anticancer effects specifically against COVID-19 infection and its complications and the existing malignancy, respectively. Thymoquinone (TQ) is the most pharmacologically active ingredient in

Indexed as

Antineoplastic AgentsAntiviral AgentsBenzoquinonesCOVID-19COVID-19 Drug TreatmentDrug RepositioningNeoplasmsAnimalsCell Line, TumorEndoplasmic Reticulum Chaperone BiPHumansMiceRatsAntineoplastic AgentsAntiviral AgentsBenzoquinonesEndoplasmic Reticulum Chaperone BiPHSPA5 protein, humanHspa5 protein, mousethymoquinoneanticancer drugsapoptosiscancerCOVID-19COVID-19 complicationsCOVID-19 treatmentsGRP78Nrf2RASSARS-CoV-2thymoquinone

Identifiers

PMID33540625
PMCPMC7912962
OpenAlexW3128241659

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