Journal of Clinical and Cellular Immunology
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-9899
ISSN: 2155-9899
Applied Biotechnology Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Review
Multiple Potential Targets of Methylene Blue against Enveloped Viruses: Lessons from Three Nobel Laureates
Author(s): Cosmin Andrei Cismaru*, Gabriel Laurentiu Cismaru, Fazel Seyed Nabavi, Mohammad Seyed Nabavi and Ioana Berindan-Neagoe
At 120 years from the first Nobel Prize award, the world is struggling with a pandemic caused by a highly contagious
coronavirus, the SARS-CoV-2. In the context of a paucity of specific and effective treatments for COVID-19 at
more than one year from its emergence, attaining herd immunity by active immunization through vaccination does
not represent a very close perspective at the present time. The resilience of enveloped viruses to many physical and
chemical aggressions by shielding in a protective lipid bilayer have turned the epidemics with enveloped viruses
capable of jumping between species into fearsome adversaries ever since the outbreaks of HIV, Marburg, Ebola,
SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV or SARS-CoV-2. The works of three Nobel laureates of the 20th century Paul Ehlrich,
Christian de Duve and Niels Ryberg Fynsen point out toward multiple potential uses of methylene bl.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2155-9899.21.12.611