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http://dx.doi.org/10.4062/biomolther.2021.134

Small Molecule Drug Candidates for Managing the Clinical Symptoms of COVID-19: a Narrative Review  

Yun, Chawon (Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Chungnam National University)
Lee, Hyun Jae (Smith Liberal Arts College and Department of Addiction Science, Graduate School, Sahmyook University)
Lee, Choong Jae (Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Chungnam National University)
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Biomolecules & Therapeutics / v.29, no.6, 2021 , pp. 571-581 More about this Journal
Abstract
Towards the end of 2019, an atypical acute respiratory disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was identified in Wuhan, China and subsequently named Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The rapid dissemination of COVID-19 has provoked a global crisis in public health. COVID-19 has been reported to cause sepsis, severe infections in the respiratory tract, multiple organ failure, and pulmonary fibrosis, all of which might induce mortality. Although several vaccines for COVID-19 are currently being administered worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic is not yet effectively under control. Therefore, novel therapeutic agents to eradicate the cause of the disease and/or manage the clinical symptoms of COVID-19 should be developed to effectively regulate the current pandemic. In this review, we discuss the possibility of managing the clinical symptoms of COVID-19 using natural products derived from medicinal plants used for controlling pulmonary inflammatory diseases in folk medicine. Diverse natural products have been reported to exert potential antiviral effects in vitro by affecting viral replication, entry into host cells, assembly in host cells, and release. However, the in vivo antiviral effects and clinical antiviral efficacies of these natural products against SARS-CoV-2 have not been successfully proven to date. Thus, these properties need to be elucidated through further investigations, including randomized clinical trials, in order to develop optimal and ideal therapeutic candidates for COVID-19.
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Natural products; Coronavirus; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19;
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