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ReviewFood chemistry advances2022

A concise review of mushrooms antiviral and immunomodulatory properties that may combat against COVID-19.

Karuppusamy Arunachalam, Sreeja Puthanpura Sasidharan, Xuefei Yang

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Review in Food chemistry advances, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
11.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Isolation and Identification of Chemical Compounds fromMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  18. Mushrooms as future generation healthy foods.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022
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  20. The Mechanisms of Lipid Vesicle Fusion Inhibition by Extracts of Chaga and Buckthorn Leaves.Biochemistry (Moscow) Supplement. Series A, Membrane and cell biology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Karuppusamy ArunachalamKey Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, The Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China.
Sreeja Puthanpura SasidharanDepartment of Botany, NSS College, Nemmara, Palakkad, Kerala, India.
Xuefei YangKey Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, The Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a pandemic on March 11, 2020, because of its widespread transmission and infection rates. The unique severe disease was found in Wuhan, China, since December 2019, and swiftly spread throughout the world. Natural chemicals derived from herbal medicines and medicinal mushrooms provide a significant resource for the development of novel antiviral drugs. Many natural drugs have been proven to have antiviral properties against a variety of virus strains, such as the coronavirus and the herpes simplex virus (HSV).. In this research, successful dietary treatments for different COVID illnesses were compared to potential of mushroom products in its therapy. In Google Scholar, Science Direct, PubMed, and Scopus, search keywords like COVID, COVID-19, SARS, MERS, mushrooms, and their compounds were utilized. In this review of the literature we foucsed popular mushrooms such as

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Antiviral activityCOVID-19Immunomodulatory effectMushroomsβ-glucan

Identifiers

PMID36686330
PMCPMC8887958
OpenAlexW4214854605

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