Some ingredients in red wine and chocolate may be used to block some viruses

Recently, researchers from Kansas State University and other institutions found that the secret of blocking some viruses and making people sick may be hidden in red wine and chocolate, but that doesn't mean that eating too much red wine and chocolate is good It was published in a research report in the international journal frontiers in microbiology Researcher Shuai Cao said resveratrol is a small natural compound found in many plants, such as grapes, cocoa beans, peanuts and blueberries It has been found that higher levels of resveratrol (higher than the natural resveratrol level in any food) may inhibit the replication of poxvirus in human cells; resveratrol can be chemically synthesized (http:// or extracted from fruits In this study, researchers hope to use resveratrol as a new type of therapy to become a complementary therapy against virus infection when people pay more and more attention to drug resistance Then researchers added resveratrol of different concentrations to human cell cultures infected with vaccinia virus, a close relative of high-risk smallpox virus, which is used as a vaccine to eradicate smallpox Vaccinia virus often provides a good model to help study the mechanism of the virus The results showed that resveratrol at a higher level could effectively inhibit the replication of vaccinia virus in the early stage of virus infection, thus blocking the spread of the virus In the end, the researchers said that although smallpox virus was eliminated, there are still some other pox viruses that are still medically relevant The researchers say the virus can be used as a gene carrier in gene therapy and cancer treatment.