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ArticlePhotodiagnosis and photodynamic therapy2021

Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy with hypocrellin B against SARS-CoV-2 infection?

Siukan Law, Chuiman Lo, Jie Han, Albert Wingnang Leung, Chuanshan Xu

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Article in Photodiagnosis and photodynamic therapy, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 7 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.

Siukan LawDepartment of Science, School of Science and Technology, The Open University of Hong Kong, Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Chuiman LoDepartment of Science, School of Science and Technology, The Open University of Hong Kong, Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Jie HanDepartment of Science, School of Science and Technology, The Open University of Hong Kong, Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Albert Wingnang LeungSchool of Graduate Studies, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong.
Chuanshan XuKey Laboratory of Molecular Target and Clinical Pharmacology, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 511436, China. Electronic address: xcshan@163.com.
Hong Kong Metropolitan University · HKState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Anti-Infective AgentsCOVID-19PerylenePhotochemotherapyHumansPhotosensitizing AgentsQuinonesSARS-CoV-2Anti-Infective Agentshypocrellin BPerylenePhotosensitizing AgentsQuinones

Identifiers

PMID33892181
PMCPMC8057054
OpenAlexW3153427935

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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