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ReviewIndian journal of pharmacology

Demystifying therapeutic potential of medicinal plants against chikungunya virus.

Sukender Kumar, Chanchal Garg, Samander Kaushik, Harpal Singh Buttar, Munish Garg

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Review in Indian journal of pharmacology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 26% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. TargetedFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022
    Article
  4. Article
  5. Development and Application of Treatment for Chikungunya Fever.Research and reports in tropical medicine · 2022
    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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Sukender KumarDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
Chanchal GargDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
Samander KaushikCenter for Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
Harpal Singh ButtarDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Munish GargDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
Maharshi Dayanand University · INUniversity of Ottawa · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Viral infections are posing a great threat to humanity for the last few years. Among these, Chikungunya which is a mosquito-borne viral infection has produced enormous epidemics around the world after been rebounded. Although this infection shows a low mortality rate, patients suffer from fever, arthralgia, and maculopapular rashes, which reduce the quality of life for several weeks to years. The currently available treatments only provide symptomatic relief based on analgesics, antipyretics, and anti-inflammatory drugs which are nonspecific without satisfactory results. Medicinal plants are a widely accepted source of new molecules for the treatment of infectious diseases including viral infections. The scientific reports, primarily focusing on the anti-chikungunya activity of plant extracts, natural origin pure compounds, and their synthetic analog published from 2011 to 2021, were selected from PubMed, Google Scholar, and Scopus by using related keywords like anti-chikungunya plants, natural antivirals for Chikungunya. The present review decodes scientific reports on medicinal plants against chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection and demystifies the potential phytoconstituents which reveals that the screening of flavonoids containing plants and phytochemicals showing efficacy against other arbovirus infections, may prove as a potential lead for drug development against CHIKV. The present article also outlines pathogenesis, clinical aspects, molecular virology, and diagnostic approaches of CHIKV infection.

Indexed as

Antiviral AgentsChikungunya FeverChikungunya virusHumansPhytotherapyPlant ExtractsPlants, MedicinalAntiviral AgentsPlant ExtractsAnti-chikungunya plantsantiviral therapychikungunya virusclinical aspectsFlavonoidsmolecular virologynatural antiviralspathogenesis

Identifiers

PMID34854411
PMCPMC8641736
OpenAlexW3217097835

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