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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2021

The Potential Therapeutic Effect of RNA Interference and Natural Products on COVID-19: A Review of the Coronaviruses Infection.

Mohammad Reza Kalhori, Fatemeh Saadatpour, Ehsan Arefian, Masoud Soleimani, Mohammad Hosien Farzaei, Ina Yosifova Aneva, Javier Echeverría

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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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

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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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Targeting miRNA by Natural Products: A Novel Therapeutic Approach for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2021
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  12. Oncogenic microRNA-1290 andTechnology in cancer research & treatment
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Mohammad Reza KalhoriMedical Biology Research Center, Health Technology Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
Fatemeh SaadatpourMolecular Virology Lab, Department of Microbiology, School of Biology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Ehsan ArefianMolecular Virology Lab, Department of Microbiology, School of Biology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Masoud SoleimaniDepartment of Hematology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
Mohammad Hosien FarzaeiMedical Technology Research Center, Health Technology Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
Ina Yosifova AnevaInstitute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Javier EcheverríaDepartamento de Ciencias del Ambiente, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The SARS-CoV-2 virus was reported for the first time in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, and causes respiratory infection. This pandemic pneumonia killed about 1,437,835 people out of 61,308,161cases up to November 27, 2020. The disease's main clinical complications include fever, recurrent coughing, shortness of breath, acute respiratory syndrome, and failure of vital organs that could lead to death. It has been shown that natural compounds with antioxidant, anticancer, and antiviral activities and RNA interference agents could play an essential role in preventing or treating coronavirus infection by inhibiting the expression of crucial virus genes. This study aims to introduce a summary of coronavirus's genetic and morphological structure and determine the role of miRNAs, siRNAs, chemical drugs, and natural compounds in stimulating the immune system or inhibiting the virus's structural and non-structural genes that are essential for replication and infection of SARS-CoV-2.

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coronavirusmiRNAnatural productsphytochemicalsSARS-CoV-2siRNA

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PMID33716745
PMCPMC7953353

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