Several FDA-Approved Drugs Effectively Inhibit SARS-CoV-2 Infection in vitro
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Abstract
To identify drugs that are potentially used for the treatment of COVID-19, the potency of 1403 FDA-approved drugs were evaluated using a robust pseudovirus assay and the candidates were further confirmed by authentic SARS-CoV-2 assay. Four compounds, Clomiphene (citrate), Vortioxetine, Vortioxetine (hydrobromide) and Asenapine (hydrochloride), showed potent inhibitory effects in both pseudovirus and authentic virus assay. The combination of Clomiphene (citrate), Vortioxetine and Asenapine (hydrochloride) is much more potent than used alone, with IC50 of 0.34 μM.
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.06.05.135996: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Cell Line Authentication not detected. Table 2: Resources
Experimental Models: Cell Lines Sentences Resources Cells and samples: Vero-E6 (American Type Culture Collection [ATCC], CRL-1586), Vero (ATCC, CCL-81), BHK21-hACE21 cells were maintained in high glucose DMEM (SIGMA-ALDRICH) supplemented with 10% FBS (GIBCO), penicillin (100 IU/mL), streptomycin (100 μg/mL) in a 5% CO2 environment at 37°C and passaged every 2 days. Verosuggested: NoneBHK21-hACE21suggested: NoneSoftware and Algorithms Sentences Resources The IC50 (the half maximal … SciScore for 10.1101/2020.06.05.135996: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Cell Line Authentication not detected. Table 2: Resources
Experimental Models: Cell Lines Sentences Resources Cells and samples: Vero-E6 (American Type Culture Collection [ATCC], CRL-1586), Vero (ATCC, CCL-81), BHK21-hACE21 cells were maintained in high glucose DMEM (SIGMA-ALDRICH) supplemented with 10% FBS (GIBCO), penicillin (100 IU/mL), streptomycin (100 μg/mL) in a 5% CO2 environment at 37°C and passaged every 2 days. Verosuggested: NoneBHK21-hACE21suggested: NoneSoftware and Algorithms Sentences Resources The IC50 (the half maximal inhibitory concentration), IC90 (the concentration for the 90% of the maximum inhibition) and CC50 (the 50% cytotoxic concentration) values were calculated with non-linear regression, i.e. log (inhibitor) vs. normalized response – Variable slope or log(agonist) vs. response—Find ECanything using GraphPad Prism 7.00 (GraphPad Software, Inc. GraphPadsuggested: (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.
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