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ReviewFrontiers in neurology2021

Elucidating the Neuropathologic Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 Infection.

Mar Pacheco-Herrero, Luis O Soto-Rojas, Charles R Harrington, Yazmin M Flores-Martinez, Marcos M Villegas-Rojas, Alfredo M León-Aguilar, Paola A Martínez-Gómez, B Berenice Campa-Córdoba, Ricardo Apátiga-Pérez, Carolin N Corniel-Taveras and 3 more

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in neurology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
34citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

13 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.

Mar Pacheco-HerreroNeuroscience Research Laboratory, Faculty of Health Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.
Luis O Soto-RojasFacultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
Charles R HarringtonSchool of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
Yazmin M Flores-MartinezPrograma Institucional de Biomedicina Molecular, Escuela Nacional de Medicina y Homeopatía, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico.
Marcos M Villegas-RojasUnidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria de Biotecnología del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (UPIBI- IPN), Mexico City, Mexico.
Alfredo M León-AguilarUnidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria de Biotecnología del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (UPIBI- IPN), Mexico City, Mexico.
Paola A Martínez-GómezFacultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
B Berenice Campa-CórdobaDepartamento de Fisiología, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico.
Ricardo Apátiga-PérezDepartamento de Fisiología, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico.
Carolin N Corniel-TaverasNeuroscience Research Laboratory, Faculty of Health Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.
Jesabelle de J Dominguez-GarcíaNeuroscience Research Laboratory, Faculty of Health Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.
Víctor Manuel Blanco-AlvarezFacultad de Enfermeria, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.
José Luna-MuñozNational Dementia BioBank, Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Estudios Superiores, Cuautitlán, Mexico.
Instituto Politécnico Nacional · MXPontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra · DOUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México · MXBenemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla · MXUniversidad de Cuautitlán Izcalli · MXUniversidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña · DOUniversity of Aberdeen · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The current pandemic caused by the new severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become a public health emergency. To date, March 1, 2021, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused about 114 million accumulated cases and 2.53 million deaths worldwide. Previous pieces of evidence suggest that SARS-CoV-2 may affect the central nervous system (CNS) and cause neurological symptoms in COVID-19 patients. It is also known that angiotensin-converting enzyme-2 (ACE2), the primary receptor for SARS-CoV-2 infection, is expressed in different brain areas and cell types. Thus, it is hypothesized that infection by this virus could generate or exacerbate neuropathological alterations. However, the molecular mechanisms that link COVID-19 disease and nerve damage are unclear. In this review, we describe the routes of SARS-CoV-2 invasion into the central nervous system. We also analyze the neuropathologic mechanisms underlying this viral infection, and their potential relationship with the neurological manifestations described in patients with COVID-19, and the appearance or exacerbation of some neurodegenerative diseases.

Indexed as

Alzheimer's diseaseblood-brain barrierneurodegenerative diseasesneuroinflammationneurological alterationsSARS-CoV-2storm cytokine syndrome

Identifiers

PMID33912129
PMCPMC8072392
OpenAlexW3156551225

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Registered trials

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