Application of tripterygium wilfordii and extract thereof in anti-SARS coronavirus infection

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Category Primary study
Year 2013
The present invention provides applications of tripterygium wilfordii and extracts thereof in prevention or treatment of SARS coronavirus infection. Experiments show that: a 95% ethanol extract of tripterygium wilfordii has an inhibition rate up to 98.8% for SARS main protease at a final concentration of 500 [mu]g/mL; and petroleum ether, ethyl acetate and n-butanol extracts of the 95% ethanol extract respectively have the inhibition rate of 99.3%, 97.2% and 83.8% for the SARS main protease.
Epistemonikos ID: 862159ec79658ef839a2e9e65b2e2818932a78fa
First added on: Aug 13, 2020