[HTML][HTML] Tea and tea drinking: China's outstanding contributions to the mankind

SY Pan, Q Nie, HC Tai, XL Song, YF Tong, LJF Zhang… - Chinese Medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Tea trees originated in southwest China 60 million or 70 million years ago.
Written records show that Chinese ancestors had begun drinking tea over 3000 years ago …

Chemico-biological aspects of (−)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) to improve its stability, bioavailability and membrane permeability: Current status and future …

R Sahadevan, S Singh, A Binoy… - Critical Reviews in Food …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Natural products have been a bedrock for drug discovery for decades.(−)-Epigallocatechin-3-
gallate (EGCG) is one of the widely studied natural polyphenolic compounds derived from …

EGCG, a green tea polyphenol, inhibits human coronavirus replication in vitro

M Jang, R Park, YI Park, YE Cha, A Yamamoto… - Biochemical and …, 2021 - Elsevier
COVID-19 pandemic results in record high deaths in many countries. Although a vaccine for
SARS-CoV-2 is now available, effective antiviral drugs to treat coronavirus diseases are not …

Epigallocatechin gallate inhibits the uridylate-specific endoribonuclease Nsp15 and efficiently neutralizes the SARS-CoV-2 strain

S Hong, SH Seo, SJ Woo, Y Kwon… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2021 - ACS Publications
SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus strain that initiated the COVID-19 pandemic, and its
subsequent variants present challenges to vaccine development and treatment. As the …

[HTML][HTML] Role of probiotics in the management of COVID-19: A computational perspective

QV Nguyen, LC Chong, YY Hor, LC Lew, IA Rather… - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic at the beginning of 2020,
causing millions of deaths worldwide. Millions of vaccine doses have been administered …

[HTML][HTML] Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) attenuates severe acute respiratory coronavirus disease 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection by blocking the interaction of SARS-CoV …

T Ohishi, T Hishiki, MS Baig, S Rajpoot, U Saqib… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 caused by the severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 triggered a global pandemic where control is needed through …

[HTML][HTML] In silico evaluation of Iranian medicinal plant phytoconstituents as inhibitors against main protease and the receptor-binding domain of SARS-CoV-2

SS Mousavi, A Karami, TM Haghighi, SG Tumilaar… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which initially appeared in Wuhan, China, in …

[HTML][HTML] Flavanols from nature: A phytochemistry and biological activity review

Y Luo, Y Jian, Y Liu, S Jiang, D Muhammad, W Wang - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Flavanols, a common class of secondary plant metabolites, exhibit several beneficial health
properties by acting as antioxidant, anticarcinogen, cardioprotective, anti-microbial, anti …

Methodology-centered review of molecular modeling, simulation, and prediction of SARS-CoV-2

K Gao, R Wang, J Chen, L Cheng, J Frishcosy… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Despite tremendous efforts in the past two years, our understanding of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), virus–host interactions, immune …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing activity of polyphenols in a special green tea extract preparation

E Kicker, G Tittel, T Schaller, EM Pferschy-Wenzig… - Phytomedicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Background The COVID-19 pandemic will continue to threaten our health care systems in
the next years. In addition to vaccination there is a need for effective tools for prevention and …