Medical Ethics and Law Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, 88777539 Tehran, Iran.
Student Research Committee, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, 22439789 Tehran, Iran.
Int J Mol Sci. 2018 May 14;19(5):1459. doi: 10.3390/ijms19051459.
Since the beginning of the epidemic, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has infected around 70 million people worldwide, most of whom reside is sub-Saharan Africa. There have been very promising developments in the treatment of HIV with anti-retroviral drug cocktails. However, drug resistance to anti-HIV drugs is emerging, and many people infected with HIV have adverse reactions or do not have ready access to currently available HIV chemotherapies. Thus, there is a need to discover new anti-HIV agents to supplement our current arsenal of anti-HIV drugs and to provide therapeutic options for populations with limited resources or access to currently efficacious chemotherapies. Plant-derived natural products continue to serve as a reservoir for the discovery of new medicines, including anti-HIV agents. This review presents a survey of plants that have shown anti-HIV activity, both in vitro and in vivo.
自疫情开始以来,全球约有 7000 万人感染了人类免疫缺陷病毒(HIV),其中大多数人居住在撒哈拉以南非洲地区。使用抗逆转录病毒药物鸡尾酒疗法治疗 HIV 方面取得了非常有希望的进展。然而,抗 HIV 药物的耐药性正在出现,许多感染 HIV 的人对现有抗 HIV 化疗药物有不良反应或无法获得。因此,有必要发现新的抗 HIV 药物来补充我们目前的抗 HIV 药物库,并为资源有限或无法获得目前有效化疗药物的人群提供治疗选择。植物来源的天然产物仍然是发现新药的宝库,包括抗 HIV 药物。本综述介绍了具有抗 HIV 活性的植物,包括体外和体内活性。