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Resveratrol and Flu

Resveratrol is an anti-oxidant, anti-carcinogenic and anti-aging substance that has now found itself in some of the most widely sough-after food supplements in the health markets worldwide. It is naturally produced in about 70 plant species including grape skins and berries as well as the famous red wine that solved the once-baffling French Paradox.

One other benefit that has the elated many researchers is its anti-Flu properties. Everyone knows that while Flu is preventable with Flu vaccines, it is not curable once it sets in and can only get its symptoms alleviated. Resveratrol presents a promise in treating Flu.

Research Results: Resveratrol vs Flu

Resveratrol doesn’t attack the flu virus but instead inhibit the host cell that makes viral replication possible. This is the findings on the research results published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases by Anna T.Palamara and colleagues at the University of Rome in may 2005.

In the animal cell culture, 20 mcg/ml of Resveratrol is used to treat the flu-virus culture and was found to have reduced viral replication by 90%. Doubling the treatment to 40 mcg totally blocked the replication. The higher concentration, however, managed to damage the cells in the culture; hence, the lower concentration was used in subsequent tests.

Testing was also done at various time intervals after the infection and the most effective was on the 3rd hours after infection with 87.5% reduction in viral growth. The researchers concluded that Resveratrol interferes with the formation of proteins used in the flu virus replication process such as hemagglutinin and hinders the transport of ribonucleoproteins carrying the virus from the cell nucleus to its cytoplasm. Resveratrol’s action has been traced to the inhibition of the protein kinase C and its pathways.

The discovery of Resveratrol’s action has promising implication in the treatment of flu as well as the introduction of better flu vaccines that have none of the toxicity of current vaccines as well as its efficacy against all strains of the flu virus.

By Admin, Resveratrols.org

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