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ReviewMicrobial pathogenesis2022

Repurposing of antiviral drugs for COVID-19 and impact of repurposed drugs on the nervous system.

Madhura Punekar, Manas Kshirsagar, Chaitanya Tellapragada, Kanchankumar Patil

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Review in Microbial pathogenesis, 2022. 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
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. From Lab to Clinic: Success Stories of Repurposed Drugs in Treating Major Diseases.Advances in pharmacological and pharmaceutical sciences · 2025
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  6. Adverse drug reactions associated with COVID-19 management.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2024
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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.

Madhura PunekarICMR National Institute of Virology, 20-A, P B No 11, Dr Ambedkar Road, Pune, 411001, Maharashtra, India. Electronic address: m.punekar95@gmail.com.
Manas KshirsagarMaastricht University, Minderbroedersberg 4-6, 6211 LK, Maastricht, the Netherlands. Electronic address: m.kshirsagar@alumni.maastrichtuniversity.nl.
Chaitanya TellapragadaDivision of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine (LABMED), Karolinska Institutet, Solnavägen 1, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden. Electronic address: chaitanya.tellapragada@ki.se.
Kanchankumar PatilICMR National Institute of Virology, 20-A, P B No 11, Dr Ambedkar Road, Pune, 411001, Maharashtra, India. Electronic address: kanchankumar.patil@gmail.com.
ICMR-National Institute of Virology · INKarolinska Institutet · SEMaastricht University · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The recent pandemic, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has devastated humanity and is continuing to threaten us. Due to the high transmissibility of this pathogen, researchers are still trying to cope with the treatment and prevention of this disease. Few of them were successful in finding cure for COVID-19 by including repurposed drugs in the treatment. In such pandemic situations, when it is nearly impossible to design and implement a new drug target, previously designed antiviral drugs could help against novel viruses, referred to as drug repurposing/redirecting/repositioning or re-profiling. This review describes the current landscape of the repurposing of antiviral drugs for COVID-19 and the impact of these drugs on our nervous system. In some cases, specific antiviral therapy has been notably associated with neurological toxicity, characterized by peripheral neuropathy, neurocognitive and neuropsychiatric effects within the central nervous system (CNS).

Indexed as

COVID-19 Drug TreatmentAntiviral AgentsDrug RepositioningHumansNervous SystemSARS-CoV-2Antiviral AgentsAntiviral therapyCOVID-19Neuropsychiatric effectsRepurposing drugsSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID35654381
PMCPMC9160731
OpenAlexW4281639495

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