Given the sharp spreading of COVID-19 pandemic all around the world, our attention was brought to consider that that many cationic drugs (i.e. those characterized by the presence, at physiological pH value, of one or more cationic groups, both primary, secondary, tertiary and guanidinic aminic groups) could have any effect in impairing SARS-CoV2 entry in the host cell. This could open to new therapeutic chances against COVID-19.

Cationic drugs and COVID-19 / O.V. Brenna, S.S. Torretta, L. Pignataro, F. Di Berardino. - In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IMMUNOPATHOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY. - ISSN 2058-7384. - 34(2020), pp. 1-3.

Cationic drugs and COVID-19

O.V. Brenna
Primo
;
S.S. Torretta
Secondo
;
L. Pignataro
Penultimo
;
F. Di Berardino
Ultimo
2020

Abstract

Given the sharp spreading of COVID-19 pandemic all around the world, our attention was brought to consider that that many cationic drugs (i.e. those characterized by the presence, at physiological pH value, of one or more cationic groups, both primary, secondary, tertiary and guanidinic aminic groups) could have any effect in impairing SARS-CoV2 entry in the host cell. This could open to new therapeutic chances against COVID-19.
COVID-19; cationic drugs; emergency; infection; pandemic
Settore MED/31 - Otorinolaringoiatria
2020
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