Xinghai Zhang, Haonan Yu, Panjie Sun, Mengxin Huang, Bo Li
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Abstract
Viruses play a significant role in human health, as they can cause a wide range of diseases, from mild illnesses to severe and life-threatening conditions. Cellular and animal experiments have demonstrated that the functional components in tea, such as catechins, theaflavins, theanine, and caffeine, exhibit significant inhibitory effects on a diverse array of viruses, including influenza, rotavirus, hepatitis, HPV, and additional types. The inhibition mechanisms may involve blocking virus-host recognition, interfering with viral replication, enhancing host immune responses, and inhibiting viral enzyme activity. This article reviews the research progress on the antiviral effects of tea's functional components and their related mechanisms, hoping to contribute to future studies in this field.
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Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049, CODEN: MOLEFW) is an open access journal of synthetic organic chemistry and natural product chemistry. All articles are peer-reviewed and published continously upon acceptance. Molecules is published by MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Our aim is to encourage chemists to publish as much as possible their experimental detail, particularly synthetic procedures and characterization information. There is no restriction on the length of the experimental section. In addition, availability of compound samples is published and considered as important information. Authors are encouraged to register or deposit their chemical samples through the non-profit international organization Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI). Molecules has been launched in 1996 to preserve and exploit molecular diversity of both, chemical information and chemical substances.