Toxic carotene or potential anti-new coronavirus drugs

Toxic carotene, as a broad-spectrum antiviral drug, may help curb the spread of epidemics, including neocyto pneumonia.
was carried out by Professor Jianzhou Zhang of the University of Nottingham and experts from the Uk's Department of Animal and Plant Health (APHA), the Agricultural University of China and the Peelbright Institute in the UK.
researchers say an effective broad-spectrum therapy that targets different viruses at the same time can significantly improve clinical management, given the clinical indesopathic nature of acute respiratory viral infections caused by different viruses.
antiviral drugs are expected to be widely used in the community to curb the virus's activity and ability to spread.
In a new study, the panel found that the use of toxic carotene, a plant-based antiviral drug, in small doses triggered an efficient broad-spectrum natural antiviral immune response against three major human respiratory viruses, including the new coronavirus.
explained that toxic carotene has a number of key characteristics that make it a promising antiviral drug.
, the use of this drug before or after infection can be effective against viral infection; Second, when toxic carotene is in the stomach, its acidity and alkalinity (pH) are stable, so it can be oral without injection or hospitalization;
"While we still need further research and more testing on this antiviral drug and its efficacy in treating new coronary pneumonia, the current results suggest that toxic carotene and its derivatives are promising antiviral treatments that can fight new coronavirus and influenza viruses," zhang said.
given that future pandemics are likely to originate in animals and that animal-to-human transmission may be possible, a new generation of antiviral drugs, including toxic carotene, is expected to play a key role in controlling and treating important human and animal viral infections.
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