Can food and food supplements be deployed in the fight against the COVID 19 pandemic?
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENERAL SUBJECTS, cilt.1865, sa.2, 2021 (SCI-Expanded)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Derleme
- Cilt numarası: 1865 Sayı: 2
- Basım Tarihi: 2021
- Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2020.129801
- Dergi Adı: BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENERAL SUBJECTS
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
- Erciyes Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Background: Due to lack of approved drugs and vaccines, the medical world has resorted to older drugs, produced for viral infections and other diseases, as a remedy to combat COVID-19. The accumulating evidence from in vitro and in vivo studies for SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV have demonstrated that several polyphenols found in plants and zinc- polyphenol clusters have been in use as herbal medicines have antiviral activities against viruses with various mechanisms.