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ReviewEmergent materials2021

Nanomedicine for COVID-19: the role of nanotechnology in the treatment and diagnosis of COVID-19.

Farzan Vahedifard, Krishnan Chakravarthy

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Review in Emergent materials, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed
7.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 126 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Recent advances in point of care testing for COVID-19 detection.Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2022
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  19. Pharmaceutical nanotechnology: from the bench to the market.Future journal of pharmaceutical sciences · 2022
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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Farzan VahedifardAltman Clinical and Translational Research Institute, University of California San Diego Health Center, San Diego, CA USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0803-7831
Krishnan ChakravarthyDivision of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego Health Center, 9400 Campus Point Dr, La Jolla, San Diego, CA USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7994-3786
UC San Diego Health System · USUniversity of California San Diego · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused the recent outbreak of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). Although nearly two decades have passed since the emergence of pandemics such as SARS-CoV and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), no effective drug against the CoV family has yet been approved, so there is a need to find newer therapeutic targets. Currently, simultaneous research across the globe is being performed to discover efficient vaccines or drugs, including both conventional therapies used to treat previous similar diseases and emerging therapies like nanomedicine. Nanomedicine has already proven its value through its application drug delivery and nanosensors in other diseases. Nanomedicine and its components can play an important role in various stages of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, vaccination, and research related to COVID-19. Nano-based antimicrobial technology can be integrated into personal equipment for the greater safety of healthcare workers and people. Various nanomaterials such as quantum dots can be used as biosensors to diagnose COVID-19. Nanotechnology offers benefits from the use of nanosystems, such as liposomes, polymeric and lipid nanoparticles, metallic nanoparticles, and micelles, for drug encapsulation, and facilitates the improvement of pharmacological drug properties. Antiviral functions for nanoparticles can target the binding, entry, replication, and budding of COVID-19. The toxicity-related inorganic nanoparticles are one of the limiting factors of its use that should be further investigated and modified. In this review, we are going to discuss nanomedicine options for COVID-19 management, similar applications for related viral diseases, and their gap of knowledge.

Indexed as

Coronavirus 2019NanomedicineNanoparticlesNanosensorsPandemicSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus

Identifiers

PMID33615140
PMCPMC7881345
OpenAlexW3133359490

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