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ReviewCellular and molecular neurobiology2023

Potential Prion Involvement in Long COVID-19 Neuropathology, Including Behavior.

George B Stefano, Pascal Büttiker, Simon Weissenberger, Martin Anders, Jiri Raboch, Radek Ptacek, Richard M Kream

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Review in Cellular and molecular neurobiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 19% 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, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. 1-L Transcription in Prion Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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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

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

George B StefanoFirst Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry of the First Faculty of Medicine and General Teaching Hospital, Charles University in Prague, 120 00 Prague 2, Ke Karlovu 11, Prague, Czech Republic. george.stefano@lf1.cuni.cz.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8146-0740
Pascal BüttikerFirst Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry of the First Faculty of Medicine and General Teaching Hospital, Charles University in Prague, 120 00 Prague 2, Ke Karlovu 11, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9366-4225
Simon WeissenbergerDepartment of Psychology, University of New York in Prague, 120 00 Prague 2, Londýnská 41, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6394-9884
Martin AndersFirst Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry of the First Faculty of Medicine and General Teaching Hospital, Charles University in Prague, 120 00 Prague 2, Ke Karlovu 11, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3039-3266
Jiri RabochFirst Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry of the First Faculty of Medicine and General Teaching Hospital, Charles University in Prague, 120 00 Prague 2, Ke Karlovu 11, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6667-1497
Radek PtacekFirst Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry of the First Faculty of Medicine and General Teaching Hospital, Charles University in Prague, 120 00 Prague 2, Ke Karlovu 11, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1076-2506
Richard M KreamFirst Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry of the First Faculty of Medicine and General Teaching Hospital, Charles University in Prague, 120 00 Prague 2, Ke Karlovu 11, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9888-2221
Charles University · CZUniversity of New York in Prague · CZ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prion' is a term used to describe a protein infectious particle responsible for several neurodegenerative diseases in mammals, e.g., Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The novelty is that it is protein based infectious agent not involving a nucleic acid genome as found in viruses and bacteria. Prion disorders exhibit, in part, incubation periods, neuronal loss, and induce abnormal folding of specific normal cellular proteins due to enhancing reactive oxygen species associated with mitochondria energy metabolism. These agents may also induce memory, personality and movement abnormalities as well as depression, confusion and disorientation. Interestingly, some of these behavioral changes also occur in COVID-19 and mechanistically include mitochondrial damage caused by SARS-CoV-2 and subsequenct production of reactive oxygen species. Taken together, we surmise, in part, long COVID may involve the induction of spontaneous prion emergence, especially in individuals susceptible to its origin may thus explain some of its manesfestions post-acute viral infection.

Indexed as

COVID-19PrionsAnimalsHumansMammalsPost-Acute COVID-19 SyndromeReactive Oxygen SpeciesSARS-CoV-2PrionsReactive Oxygen SpeciesConfusionCOVID-19DepressionLong COVIDMitochondriaPrionPrion disordersSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID36977809
PMCPMC10047479
OpenAlexW4361218748

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