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Medicinal Plants against Viral Infections: A Review of Metabolomics Evidence for the Antiviral Properties and Potentials in Plant Sources.
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- Advancing Antiviral Design: Integrating Natural Products, Computation and Targeted Delivery.Chemical biology & drug design · 2026Review
- Phytochemistry, Antimicrobial, and Antibiofilm Properties of MalagasyPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Integrated transcriptomic analysis reveals transcriptional changes associated with begomovirus infection in the medicinal plantFrontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Cocoa by-products extracts suppress viral replication and oxidative stress in chikungunya virus-infected cells.PloS one · 2026Article
- Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV): A comprehensive review of its virology, epidemiology, clinical features, and advances in diagnosis and prevention.Northern clinics of Istanbul · 2026Review
- In Vitro and In Silico Analyses Explore the Role of Flavonoid Classes in the Antiviral Activity of Plant Extracts Against the Dengue Virus.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Biodiversity to Breakthroughs: The Promise of Saudi Arabian Medicinal Plants in Antiviral Research.Applied biochemistry and biotechnology · 2025Review
- Key regulatory genes in sugar beet's defense against curly top virus identified by network analysis and qRT-PCR.Biochemistry and biophysics reports · 2025Article
- A review of herbal therapeutics for the prevention and management of poxvirus infections.Archives of microbiology · 2025Review
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- Phyto-derived interferons: a promising frontier in antiviral therapy development.EXCLI journal · 2025Article
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Abstract
Most plants have developed unique mechanisms to cope with harsh environmental conditions to compensate for their lack of mobility. A key part of their coping mechanisms is the synthesis of secondary metabolites. In addition to their role in plants' defense against pathogens, they also possess therapeutic properties against diseases, and their use by humans predates written history. Viruses are a unique class of submicroscopic agents, incapable of independent existence outside a living host. Pathogenic viruses continue to pose a significant threat to global health, leading to innumerable fatalities on a yearly basis. The use of medicinal plants as a natural source of antiviral agents has been widely reported in literature in the past decades. Metabolomics is a powerful research tool for the identification of plant metabolites with antiviral potentials. It can be used to isolate compounds with antiviral capacities in plants and study the biosynthetic pathways involved in viral disease progression. This review discusses the use of medicinal plants as antiviral agents, with a special focus on the metabolomics evidence supporting their efficacy. Suggestions are made for the optimization of various metabolomics methods of characterizing the bioactive compounds in plants and subsequently understanding the mechanisms of their operation.
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