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ReviewImmunopharmacology and immunotoxicology2021

Promising drug repurposing approach targeted for cytokine storm implicated in SARS-CoV-2 complications.

May Ahmed Shawki, Noha Salah Elsayed, Eman M Mantawy, Riham S Said

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Review in Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

May Ahmed ShawkiDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Noha Salah ElsayedDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Eman M MantawyDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Riham S SaidDepartment of Drug Radiation Research, National Center for Radiation Research and Technology, Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo, Egypt.
Ain Shams University · EGEgyptian Atomic Energy Authority · EG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A global threat has emerged in 2019 due to the rapid spread of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). As of January 2021, the number of cases worldwide reached 103 million cases and 2.22 million deaths which were confirmed as the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). This global pandemic galvanized the scientific community to study the causative virus (SARS-CoV2) pathogenesis, transmission, and clinical symptoms. Remarkably, the most common complication associated with this disease is the cytokine storm which is responsible for COVID-19 mortality. Thus, targeting the cytokine storm with new medications is needed to hamper COVID-19 complications where the most prominent strategy for the treatment is drug repurposing. Through this strategy, several steps are skipped especially those required for testing drug safety and thus may help in reducing the dissemination of this pandemic. Accordingly, the aim of this review is to outline the pathogenesis, clinical features, and immune complications of SARS-CoV2 in addition to suggesting several repurposed drugs with their plausible mechanism of action for possible management of severe COVID-19 cases.

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COVID-19 Drug TreatmentDrug RepositioningAnimalsAnti-Inflammatory AgentsCOVID-19Cytokine Release SyndromeCytokinesHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansSARS-CoV-2Anti-Inflammatory AgentsCytokinescomplicationsCOVID-19cytokine stormdrug repurposingpathogenesis

Identifiers

PMID34057871
PMCPMC8171013
OpenAlexW3165450751

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