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ReviewJournal of cellular biochemistry2022

Harnessing autophagy to fight SARS-CoV-2: An update in view of recent drug development efforts.

Theo Rein

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Review in Journal of cellular biochemistry, 2022. 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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3citing papers in PubMed
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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. 3DEmerging microbes & infections · 2022
    Article
  2. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
    Review
  3. Review
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

1 author.

Theo ReinDepartment of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2850-4289

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drug repurposing is an attractive option for identifying new treatment strategies, in particular in extraordinary situations of urgent need such as the current coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. Recently, the World Health Organization announced testing of three drugs as potential Covid-19 therapeutics that are known for their dampening effect on the immune system. Thus, the underlying concept of selecting these drugs is to temper the potentially life-threatening overshooting of the immune system reacting to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. This viewpoint discusses the possibility that the impact of these and other drugs on autophagy contributes to their therapeutic effect by hampering the SARS-CoV-2 life cycle.

Indexed as

COVID-19 Drug TreatmentDrug RepositioningPandemicsAntidepressive AgentsAntiviral AgentsArtesunateAutophagyChloroquineDrug DevelopmentEndoplasmic ReticulumEndosomesHumansHydroxychloroquineImatinib MesylateInfliximabIntracellular MembranesAntidepressive AgentsAntiviral AgentsArtesunatebafilomycin AChloroquineHydroxychloroquineImatinib MesylateInfliximabIvermectinMacrolidesNiclosamideRNA, ViralautophagyCovid-19drug repurposingpharmacologySARS-CoV2virophagy

Identifiers

PMID34668225
PMCPMC9088732

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