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ReviewCell death and differentiation2021

Comorbidity-associated glutamine deficiency is a predisposition to severe COVID-19.

Toshifumi Matsuyama, Steven K Yoshinaga, Kimitaka Shibue, Tak W Mak

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Review in Cell death and differentiation, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

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

40 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Metabolic Control of Immunity-Unveiling Neutrophil Mechanisms.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
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  15. Effect of physical activity on long COVID fatigue: an unsolved enigma.European journal of translational myology · 2023
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  16. Frailty after COVID-19: The wave after?Aging medicine (Milton (N.S.W)) · 2023
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  19. NADCell & bioscience · 2023
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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 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Toshifumi Matsuyama *Department of Pathology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan. tosim@nagasaki-u.ac.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1831-4094
Steven K Yoshinaga *SKYBAY Education, Thousand Oaks, CA, 91360, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4593-1549
Kimitaka ShibueTazuke Kofukai Medical Research Institute, Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
Tak W MakPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5G 2M9, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6766-861X
Kitano Hospital · JPNagasaki University · JPUniversity Health Network · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations have greatly reduced COVID-19 cases, but we must continue to develop our understanding of the nature of the disease and its effects on human immunity. Previously, we suggested that a dysregulated STAT3 pathway following SARS-Co-2 infection ultimately leads to PAI-1 activation and cascades of pathologies. The major COVID-19-associated metabolic risks (old age, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and obesity) share high PAI-1 levels and could predispose certain groups to severe COVID-19 complications. In this review article, we describe the common metabolic profile that is shared between all of these high-risk groups and COVID-19. This profile not only involves high levels of PAI-1 and STAT3 as previously described, but also includes low levels of glutamine and NAD

Indexed as

AnimalsComorbidityCOVID-19GlutamineHumansHyaluronic AcidMetabolomePlasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1Risk FactorsSeverity of Illness IndexGlutamineHyaluronic AcidPlasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1SERPINE1 protein, human

Identifiers

PMID34663907
PMCPMC8522258
OpenAlexW3207768529

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