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ReviewFree radical biology & medicine2021

Nrf2 activator PB125® as a carnosic acid-based therapeutic agent against respiratory viral diseases, including COVID-19.

Joe M McCord, Brooks M Hybertson, Adela Cota-Gomez, Bifeng Gao

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Review in Free radical biology & medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 17 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Joe M McCordPathways Bioscience, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA. Electronic address: joe.mccord@cuanschutz.edu.
Brooks M HybertsonPathways Bioscience, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA. Electronic address: brooks@pathwaysbio.com.
Adela Cota-GomezDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA. Electronic address: adela.cota-gomez@cuanschutz.edu.
Bifeng GaoPathways Bioscience, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA. Electronic address: bifeng.gao@cuanschutz.edu.
Pathways Behavioral Services · USUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus · US

Funding

University of Colorado Cancer Center Support Grant - Lung Cancer Patient-Derived Xenografts with Autologous Human Immune SystemsP30CA046934 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI James V Degregori · 1988 to 2026
$117.0M
Supporting Healthy Aging with a Phytochemical Combination that Acts at Multiple Control Points in the Nrf2 Activation PathwayR43AG053128 · NIA · PATHWAYS BIOSCIENCE, LLC · PI HYBERTSON, BROOKS MICHAEL · 2017 to 2017
$210k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA046934NIA NIH HHS R43 AG053128
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PB125® is a phytochemical composition providing potent Nrf2 activation as well as a number of direct actions that do not involve Nrf2. Nrf2 is a transcription actor that helps maintain metabolic balance by providing redox-sensitive expression of numerous genes controlling normal day-to-day metabolic pathways. When ordinary metabolism is upset by extraordinary events such as injury, pathogenic infection, air or water pollution, ingestion of toxins, or simply by the slow but incessant changes brought about by aging and genetic variations, Nrf2 may also be called into action by the redox changes resulting from these events, whether acute or chronic. A complicating factor in all of this is that Nrf2 levels decline with aging, leaving the elderly less able to maintain proper redox balance. The dysregulated gene expression that results can cause or exacerbate a wide variety of pathological conditions, including susceptibility to viral infections. This review examines the characteristics desirable in Nrf2 activators that have therapeutic potential, as well as some of the patterns of dysregulated gene expression commonly observed during pulmonary infections and the normalizing effects possible by judicious use of phytochemicals to increase the activation level of available Nrf2.

Indexed as

COVID-19NF-E2-Related Factor 2AbietanesAgedHumansSARS-CoV-2AbietanesNF-E2-Related Factor 2salvinCarnosic acidCoronavirusCOVID-19CytokinesEndotheliumInterferonNrf2PB125SARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID34058321
PMCPMC8413148
OpenAlexW3164197913

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