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ReviewPharmaceutics2021

Mesenchymal Stromal Cells: Potential Option for COVID-19 Treatment.

Dragan Primorac, Martin Čemerin, Vid Matišić, Vilim Molnar, Marko Strbad, Lenart Girandon, Lucija Zenić, Miomir Knežević, Stephen Minger, Denis Polančec

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Review in Pharmaceutics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Stem cell-based therapy for human diseases.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Dragan PrimoracSt. Catherine Specialty Hospital, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0001-5565-080X
Martin ČemerinSchool of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Vid MatišićSt. Catherine Specialty Hospital, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0003-4536-285X
Vilim MolnarSt. Catherine Specialty Hospital, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0001-5361-6499
Marko StrbadEducell Ltd., 1236 Trzin, Slovenia.
Lenart GirandonEducell Ltd., 1236 Trzin, Slovenia.
Lucija ZenićSrebrnjak Children's Hospital, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Miomir KneževićEducell Ltd., 1236 Trzin, Slovenia.
Stephen MingerNational Institute of Biology, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Denis PolančecSrebrnjak Children's Hospital, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the way of life worldwide and continues to bring high mortality rates to at-risk groups. Patients who develop severe COVID-19 pneumonia, often complicated with ARDS, are left with limited treatment options with no targeted therapy currently available. One of the features of COVID-19 is an overaggressive immune reaction that leads to multiorgan failure. Mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) treatment has been in development for various clinical indications for over a decade, with a safe side effect profile and promising results in preclinical and clinical trials. Therefore, the use of MSCs in COVID-19-induced respiratory failure and ARDS was a logical step in order to find a potential treatment option for the most severe patients. In this review, the main characteristics of MSCs, their proposed mechanism of action in COVID-19 treatment and the effect of this therapy in published case reports and clinical trials are discussed.

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ARDSCOVID-19immunomodulationmesenchymal stromal cellsMSCs

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PMID34575557
PMCPMC8469913

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