Can food and food supplements be deployed in the fight against the COVID 19 pandemic?


Celik C., Gençay Göksu A., Öçsoy İ.

BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENERAL SUBJECTS, cilt.1865, sa.2, 2021 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

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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.