Autophagy-inflammation interplay during infection: Balancing pathogen clearance and host inflammation

Y Pang, L Wu, C Tang, H Wang, Y Wei - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Inflammation is an essential immune response of the host against infections but is often over-
activated, leading to a variety of disorders. Autophagy, a conserved degradation pathway …

Assessing the efficacy and safety of hydroxychloroquine as outpatient treatment of COVID-19: a randomized controlled trial

I Schwartz, ME Boesen, G Cerchiaro… - … Open Access Journal, 2021 - cmajopen.ca
Background: Identification of therapies to prevent severe COVID-19 remains a priority. We
sought to determine whether hydroxychloroquine treatment for outpatients with SARS-CoV-2 …

Drug repurposing against SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV

S Aherfi, B Pradines, C Devaux, S Honore… - Future …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, large in silico screening studies and
numerous in vitro studies have assessed the antiviral activity of various drugs on SARS-CoV …

Camostat mesylate may reduce severity of coronavirus disease 2019 sepsis: a first observation

H Hofmann-Winkler, O Moerer, S Alt-Epping… - Critical care …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 cell entry depends on
angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 and transmembrane serine protease 2 and is blocked in …

Quinine inhibits infection of human cell lines with SARS-CoV-2

M Grosse, N Ruetalo, M Layer, D Hu, R Businger… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
While vaccination campaigns are ongoing worldwide, there is still a tremendous medical
need for efficient antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 infection. Among several drug candidates …

SARS-CoV-2 in animals: From potential hosts to animal models

A Michelitsch, K Wernike, L Ulrich… - Advances in Virus …, 2021 - Elsevier
Within only one year after the first detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), nearly 100 million infections were reported in the human …

Azithromycin through the Lens of the COVID-19 Treatment

GG Kournoutou, G Dinos - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Azithromycin has become famous in the last two years, not for its main antimicrobial effect,
but for its potential use as a therapeutic agent for COVID-19 infection. Initially, there were …

SARS-CoV-2 viral dynamics in non-human primates

A Gonçalves, P Maisonnasse, F Donati… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Non-human primates infected with SARS-CoV-2 exhibit mild clinical signs. Here we used a
mathematical model to characterize in detail the viral dynamics in 31 cynomolgus macaques …

An open-label randomized controlled trial of the effect of lopinavir/ritonavir, lopinavir/ritonavir plus IFN-β-1a and hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized patients with …

F Ader, N Peiffer-Smadja, J Poissy… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objectives We evaluated the clinical, virological and safety outcomes of lopinavir/ritonavir,
lopinavir/ritonavir–interferon (IFN)-β-1a, hydroxychloroquine or remdesivir in comparison to …

Smartwatch electrocardiogram and artificial intelligence for assessing cardiac-rhythm safety of drug therapy in the COVID-19 pandemic. The QT-logs study

B Maille, M Wilkin, M Million, N Rességuier… - International journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background QTc interval monitoring, for the prevention of drug-induced arrhythmias is
necessary, especially in the context of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). For the …