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Screening of Natural Antivirals Against the COVID-19 Pandemic- ACompilation of Updates

2022· article· en· W4281782212 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueCurrent Traditional Medicine · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCoronavirusPandemicProteaseMedicineTraditional medicineBiologyPharmacologyCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)VirologyInfectious disease (medical specialty)DiseaseEnzyme

Abstract

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Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), named by WHO, is a public health disaster of the third millennium. This acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has severe complications like pneumonitis, respiratory failure, shock, multi-organ failure, and finally, death. Despite repurposing of broad-spectrum antivirals, vaccinations, use of mask sanitizers, social distancing, intermittent lockdowns and quarantine, long-term protection or eradication of coronavirus is yet to be achieved. Objectives: This comprehensive review makes a compilation of updates on the screening and evaluation of natural antivirals that are found to show anti-COVID potency. Methods: Literature mining was done in phytotherapy and food research journals, Pubmed, Scopus, Elsevier for collection of latest research updates focusing on screening and evaluation of anti-COVID natural antivirals. Results: In silico molecular docking studies have screened several phytochemicals and food bioactive principles with significant potencies against the corona virus. The anti-COVID potency of the phytochemicals is mostly by restricting the action of enzymes like the main protease (Mpro), 3-chymotrypsin like protease (3CLpro), spike proteins, papain-like protease (ACE2). Free radical scavenging, anti-inflammatory effect, DNA inhibition, prevention of viral attachment, and its penetration into the host body, inhibiting viral replication are other associated mechanisms of bioactive compounds present in plants, vegetables, fruits, spices and marine alga. Different formulations of Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani have shown their ameliorative effects. Many formulations of Traditional Chinese Medicine are under clinical trials. Conclusions: The immense potencies of bioactives that are omnipresent need to be properly utilized for immune-boosting and combat this deadly virus naturistically.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.636
Threshold uncertainty score0.391

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.231
GPT teacher head0.409
Teacher spread0.178 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it