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DIGG CALL on chloroquine (may be effective against Covid-19)
Digging a bit more on: Is chloroquine and quinine the same;
5-HT3 responses were blocked with IC 50 values of 13.4 μM, 11.8 μM and 9.36 μM for quinine, chloroquine and mefloquine. Schild plots indicated quinine and chloroquine behaved competitively with pA 2 values of 4.92 (K B=12.0 μM) and 4.97 (K B=16.4 μM). Mefloquine displayed weakly voltage-dependent, non-competitive inhibition consistent with channel block. On and off rates for quinine and chloroquine indicated a simple bimolecular reaction scheme. Quinine, chloroquine and mefloquine displaced [3H]granisetron with K i values of 15.0, 24.2 and 35.7 μ M. Docking of quinine into a homology model of the 5-HT3 receptor binding site located the tertiary ammonium between W183 and Y234, and the quinoline ring towards the membrane, stabilised by a hydrogen bond with E129. For chloroquine, the quinoline ring was positioned between W183 and Y234 and the tertiary ammonium stabilised by interactions with F226.
Not a sciencefag here but it would seem that they are basically interchangeable when it comes to fighting malaria. It would follow that they both work for COVID-19.
This study shows that quinine and chloroquine competitively inhibit 5-HT3 receptors, while mefloquine inhibits predominantly non-competitively. Both quinine and chloroquine can be docked into a receptor binding site model, consistent with their structural homology to 5-HT3 receptor antagonists.
CALLING any Sciencefags to help explain.
Sauce: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1994240/