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ArticleScientific reports2021

The in-vitro effect of famotidine on sars-cov-2 proteases and virus replication.

Madeline Loffredo, Hector Lucero, Da-Yuan Chen, Aoife O'Connell, Simon Bergqvist, Ahmad Munawar, Asanga Bandara, Steff De Graef, Stephen D Weeks, Florian Douam and 2 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 38 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

12 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Madeline LoffredoBisect Therapeutics, Inc., 45 Dan Road, Canton, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5003-2081
Hector LuceroBisect Therapeutics, Inc., 45 Dan Road, Canton, MA, USA.
Da-Yuan ChenNational Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), 620 Albany Street, Boston, MA, 02118, USA.
Aoife O'ConnellNational Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), 620 Albany Street, Boston, MA, 02118, USA.
Simon BergqvistBiofizik, Inc., 9865 Mesa Rim Road, San Diego, CA, USA.
Ahmad MunawarBisect Therapeutics, Inc., 45 Dan Road, Canton, MA, USA.
Asanga BandaraBisect Therapeutics, Inc., 45 Dan Road, Canton, MA, USA.
Steff De GraefBisect Therapeutics, Inc., 45 Dan Road, Canton, MA, USA.
Stephen D WeeksBisect Therapeutics, Inc., 45 Dan Road, Canton, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1360-0852
Florian DouamNational Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), 620 Albany Street, Boston, MA, 02118, USA.
Mohsan SaeedNational Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), 620 Albany Street, Boston, MA, 02118, USA. msaeed1@bu.edu.
Ali H MunawarBisect Therapeutics, Inc., 45 Dan Road, Canton, MA, USA. amunawar@bisect-tx.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9617-9460
Boston University · USMalone University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The lack of coronavirus-specific antiviral drugs has instigated multiple drug repurposing studies to redirect previously approved medicines for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus behind the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. A recent, large-scale, retrospective clinical study showed that famotidine, when administered at a high dose to hospitalized COVID-19 patients, reduced the rates of intubation and mortality. A separate, patient-reported study associated famotidine use with improvements in mild to moderate symptoms such as cough and shortness of breath. While a prospective, multi-center clinical study is ongoing, two parallel in silico studies have proposed one of the two SARS-CoV-2 proteases, 3CL

Indexed as

A549 CellsAnimalsChlorocebus aethiopsCOVID-19FamotidineHumansPeptide HydrolasesSARS-CoV-2Vero CellsVirus ReplicationFamotidinePeptide Hydrolases

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PMID33686143
PMCPMC7940615
OpenAlexW3135701742

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