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ReviewDrug discovery today2020

Derivatization and combination therapy of current COVID-19 therapeutic agents: a review of mechanistic pathways, adverse effects, and binding sites.

Sally El Kantar, Bilal Nehmeh, Philippe Saad, Gabie Mitri, Celine Estephan, Mohamad Mroueh, Elias Akoury, Robin I Taleb

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Review in Drug discovery today, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

8 authors.

Sally El KantarSchool of Arts and Sciences, Department of Natural Sciences, Lebanese American University, Beirut 1102-2801, Lebanon.
Bilal NehmehSchool of Arts and Sciences, Department of Natural Sciences, Lebanese American University, Byblos Campus, Blat, Lebanon.
Philippe SaadSchool of Arts and Sciences, Department of Natural Sciences, Lebanese American University, Byblos Campus, Blat, Lebanon.
Gabie MitriSchool of Arts and Sciences, Department of Natural Sciences, Lebanese American University, Byblos Campus, Blat, Lebanon.
Celine EstephanSchool of Arts and Sciences, Department of Natural Sciences, Lebanese American University, Byblos Campus, Blat, Lebanon.
Mohamad MrouehSchool of Pharmacy, Lebanese American University, Byblos Campus, Blat, Lebanon.
Elias AkourySchool of Arts and Sciences, Department of Natural Sciences, Lebanese American University, Beirut 1102-2801, Lebanon.
Robin I TalebSchool of Arts and Sciences, Department of Natural Sciences, Lebanese American University, Byblos Campus, Blat, Lebanon. Electronic address: robin.taleb@lau.edu.lb.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Current treatment of patients with coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) involves repurposed drugs that inhibit viral infection by either binding to their respective targets or via modulating cellular signal transduction. However, there is still a great deal of efficacy enhancement through combination therapy and derivatization. Combination therapy should involve agents with significant activity and different mechanisms of action. The structural map of the interaction between a drug and its target protein will help guide drug discovery for devising safe and effective ways to treat COVID-19. Herein, we report numerous synthetic designs based on enhanced affinity to the viral carbohydrate-rich protein spikes and protein-binding sites of COVID-19.

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COVID-19 Drug TreatmentDrug RepositioningAnimalsAntiviral AgentsBinding SitesClinical Trials as TopicCOVID-19Drug Therapy, CombinationEvidence-Based MedicineHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansLigandsMolecular Targeted TherapySARS-CoV-2Signal TransductionTreatment OutcomeAntiviral AgentsLigands

Identifiers

PMID32801052
PMCPMC7422796

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.