Potential therapeutic effects of dipyridamole in the severely ill patients with COVID-19

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    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementIACUC: The study procedure was approved by Animal Ethics Committee of Guangzhou Medical University.
    IRB: The Ethics Committee from Dawu County People’s Hospital approved the study.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variableSix-week old female mice were intravenous injected with VSV (108 PFU/g) and followed with DIP (35 mg/kg; intraperitoneal injection, i.p; twice/day) treatment for 5 days.
    Cell Line Authenticationnot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Antibodies
    SentencesResources
    After 24 hours of incubation, cells were fixed and permeabilized with Cytofix/Cytoperm (BD), incubated with a rabbit anti-HCoV-19 nucleocapsid protein polyclonal antibody (Sino Biological), followed by a HRP-labelled goat anti-rabbit secondary antibody (Jackson).
    a rabbit
    suggested: None
    nucleocapsid protein polyclonal antibody ( Sino Biological) , followed by a HRP-labelled goat anti-rabbit secondary antibody ( Jackson)
    suggested: None
    anti-rabbit
    suggested: None
    The antibodies against TBK1 [TBK1/NAK (D1B4
    TBK1
    suggested: (Cell Signaling Technology Cat# 3504, RRID:AB_2255663)
    Experimental Models: Cell Lines
    SentencesResources
    Fluorescent focus assay: Vero E6 cells were seeded in 96-well plates and treated with different dosages of dipyridamole or chloroquine for an hour before infected with HCoV-19.
    Vero E6
    suggested: None
    Experimental Models: Organisms/Strains
    SentencesResources
    VSV-induced viral pneumonia model: C57/BL-6J mice were obtained from the Guangdong Medical Laboratory Animal Center.
    C57/BL-6J
    suggested: None
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    DIP (PubChem CID: 3108
    PubChem
    suggested: (PubChem, RRID:SCR_004284)
    Statistical analysis: Statistical analyses and graphics production were performed using R v3.5.3 (Foundation for Statistical Computing) and GraphPad Prism 8.
    GraphPad
    suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).


    Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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