ArticleHeliyon2023
Curcumin-derived carbon-dots as a potential COVID-19 antiviral drug.
Article in Heliyon, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Progress in the Study of Extraction Methods and Pharmacological Effects of Traditional Chinese Medicine-Derived Carbon Dots.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Crinis Carbonisatus-Derived Carbon Dot Suspension Alleviates Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Curcumin-alendronate carbon dots: A dual-logic strategy for precision treatment of periodontitis.Materials today. Bio · 2025Article
- Structure-Based Design and In-Silico Evaluation of Computationally Proposed Curcumin Derivatives as Potential Inhibitors of the Coronaviral PLpro Enzymes.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Toxicity assessment and bioimaging potential of carbon dots synthesized from banana peel in zebrafish model.Narra J · 2024Article
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14 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Even entering the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, only a small number of COVID-19 antiviral drugs are approved. Curcumin has previously shown antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid, but its poor bioavailability limits its clinical uses. Utilizing nanotechnology structures, curcumin-derived carbon-dots (cur-CDs) were synthesized to increase low bioavailability of curcumin.
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