Screening For Antiviral Activities of Aqueous Extracts of Some Egyptian Seaweeds | ||||
| The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine | ||||
| Article 18, Volume 64, Issue 1, July 2016, Page 430-435 PDF (253.56 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.12816/0029035 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Shaimaa Ashour Abdel-Latif Zaid1; Kouka Saad El-Din Abdel-Wahab2; Nermine N. Abed3; Enas Kamal Abo El-Magd2; Rawheya Abdel-Latif Salah El-Din3 | ||||
| 1Microbiologist at Chemistry Administration, Ministry of Trade and Industry | ||||
| 2Microbiology Department, Faculty of Medicine for Girls, Al-Azhar University | ||||
| 3Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science for Girls, Al-Azhar University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: aqueous extracts of six species of marine seaweed were studied as antiviral activity on different viruses. Materials and methods: these collected from two sites Hurghada at the Red Sea and Al-Agami area in Alexandria Mediterranean Sea Egypt and belonging to the classes Chlorophyta, Phaeophyta and Rhodophyta were assayed for the cytotoxicity and antiviral activity by MTT [3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenlytetrezolium bromide] and by neutralization methods. Results: these extracts have antiviral activity to herpes simplex virus types-1 (HSV-1) and type-2 (HSV-2), hepatitis A virus (HAV-H10), and Coxsackie B4 virus in Vero cells with very low cytotoxicity to the host cells. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| antivirus; Marine seaweed; Hurghada; Red Sea; Al-Agami; alexandria; Egypt | ||||
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