{"id":131333,"date":"2021-11-27T08:26:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T16:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/molecule-derived-from-poisonous-plant-blocks-all-sars-cov-2-variants-in-cell-cultures"},"modified":"2021-11-27T08:26:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T16:26:55","slug":"molecule-derived-from-poisonous-plant-blocks-all-sars-cov-2-variants-in-cell-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/molecule-derived-from-poisonous-plant-blocks-all-sars-cov-2-variants-in-cell-cultures","title":{"rendered":"Molecule Derived From Poisonous Plant Blocks All SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Cell Cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/molecule-derived-from-poisonous-plant-blocks-all-sars-cov-2-variants-in-cell-cultures2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The plant-based antiviral agent <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thapsigargin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thapsigargin<\/a> (TG), derived from a group of poisonous plants known as \u2018deadly carrots\u2019, appears to be effective against all variants of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"SARS-CoV-2\">SARS-CoV-2<\/a> in the lab \u2013 and that includes the quick-spreading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-is-delta-variant-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Delta variant\">Delta variant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1999-4915\/13\/2\/234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previous study published in February<\/a> demonstrated that TG can be effective against a host of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/virus\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"viruses\">viruses<\/a>. Now, this latest work by the same research team confirms that the antiviral also isn\u2019t being outflanked as SARS-CoV-2 evolves. With the emergence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www-sciencealert-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/what-is-the-mu-variant-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new variants<\/a> an ongoing possibility, it\u2019s intriguing to observe the continuous efficacy of TG.<\/p>\n<p>In tests on cell cultures in the lab, doses of TG delivered either before infection or during active infection were shown to block and inhibit SARS-CoV-2 variants, triggering a broad and powerful protective response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plant-based antiviral agent thapsigargin (TG), derived from a group of poisonous plants known as \u2018deadly carrots\u2019, appears to be effective against all variants of SARS-CoV-2 in the lab \u2013 and that includes the quick-spreading Delta variant. A previous study published in February demonstrated that TG can be effective against a host of viruses. Now, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}