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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2025

Honeysuckle extracts as a potential inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Ping-Chang Lin, Ying-Ray Lee, Li-Teh Liu, Shyh-Shin Chiou, Po-Chih Chen, Ching-Yi Tsai, Jih-Jin Tsai

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Ping-Chang Lin *Tropical Medicine Center, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Ying-Ray Lee *Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Li-Teh LiuDepartment of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medical Technology, Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology, Tainan, Taiwan.
Shyh-Shin ChiouTaiwan Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis (TSTH) Study Group, Taipei, Taiwan.
Po-Chih ChenDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Ching-Yi TsaiTropical Medicine Center, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Jih-Jin TsaiTropical Medicine Center, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

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Background: In the current era of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), we were interested in searching for medications other than the currently available antiviral drugs Paxlovid and Molnupiravir that cause minimal side effects and do not harm the human body. Honeysuckle extract (HSE) is a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that has been shown to exert antiviral effects in other studies. However, no studies have indicated whether HSE has an inhibitory effect on SARS-CoV-2. Methods: We prepared HSEs from dried honeysuckle flowers. We performed a cell viability assay, median tissue culture infection dose (TCID Results: In this study, post-treatment with HSE resulted in dose-dependent decreases in both the RNA levels and TCID Conclusion: The results suggest that HSEs may have the potential to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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COVID-19extractshoneysuckleLonicera japonica Thunb.SARS-CoV-2

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