Natural products and medicinal plants role as an antiviral agent- Review Article

  • 15 Oct 2022
  • Recently published Research - Pharmacy

Researchers

MhD. Isam Hasan Agha, Shatha Himour, Basel Badawi, Nour Yasin

Published in

International Journal of Advanced Research in Science, Engineering and Technology (IJARSET), volume 9, issue 2, February 2022.

 


Abstract

Viral infections are vital issue in pathology. Recent growing pandemics due to globalization and the easiness of travel confirmed the necessity of preventing these infections as a major public health risk. In spite of significant progress in drug development and disease immunization, there is a lack in preventive vaccines and effective antivirus, because of viruses tendency to genetic mutations in when they intrude on the living cell, and generating new virual patterns differ from the original. The research into the molecular virology has opened up new approaches to understand the properties of viruses and their mandatory intrusione nature, in addition to their pathogenesis. Unfortunately, the required antiviral drugs must possess selective antiviral efficacy without interfering with the biological pathways of the host cells.

As Viruses are the main cause of death worldwide, in addition to the side effects of their chemical inhibitors, Natural products representing in medicinal plants emerge as a new alternative source of antiviral agents which can fulfill the renew need to such safe effective antiviral medications.

Search goal: This review aims to study and analyze puplished data about plants containing antiviral chemical compounds with antiviral efficacy from 1995 to 2021. It discusses their role in curbing the spread of viruses and treating their infections.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria: Clinical trials, in vitro and in vivo trials are included. In addition, reference articles, only English articles were accepted, during the period (1995-2021). Articles that need further analysis were excluded.

Quality assessment: to assess the quality of each article, different parts such as title, abstract, introduction, methods, results, and conclusion were examined.

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https://www.ijarset.com/upload/2022/february/4-sh-hymoor-08.pdf