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Abstract Title:

Antiviral Effects of Polyphenols from Marine Algae.

Abstract Source:

Biomedicines. 2021 Feb 17 ;9(2). Epub 2021 Feb 17. PMID: 33671278

Abstract Author(s):

Natalya N Besednova, Boris G Andryukov, Tatyana S Zaporozhets, Sergey P Kryzhanovsky, Ludmila N Fedyanina, Tatyana A Kuznetsova, Tatyana N Zvyagintseva, Mikhail Yu Shchelkanov

Article Affiliation:

Natalya N Besednova

Abstract:

The disease-preventive and medicinal properties of plant polyphenolic compounds have long been known. As active ingredients, they are used to prevent and treat many noncommunicable diseases. In recent decades, marine macroalgae have attracted the attention of biotechnologists and pharmacologists as a promising and almost inexhaustible source of polyphenols. This heterogeneous group of compounds contains many biopolymers with unique structure and biological properties that exhibit high anti-infective activity. In the present review, the authors focus on the antiviral potential of polyphenolic compounds (phlorotannins) from marine algae and consider the mechanisms of their action as well as other biological properties of these compounds that have effects on the progress and outcome of viral infections. Effective nutraceuticals, to be potentially developed on the basis of algal polyphenols, can also be used in the complex therapy of viral diseases. It is necessary to extend in vivo studies on laboratory animals, which subsequently will allow proceeding to clinical tests. Polyphenolic compounds have a great potential as active ingredients to be used for the creation of new antiviral pharmaceutical substances.

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