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Ficus pumila L. improves the prognosis of patients infected with HTLV-1, an RNA virus
Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 was isolated as the retrovirus to be identified in humans. Here, we focused on Ficus pumila L. as a factor that be effective against human T-cell leukemia virus type 1. The significant and novel findings is that symptoms of patients with drinking Ficus pumila L. ex...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7877332/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33573641 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12937-021-00672-x |
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author | Gonda, Kenji Suzuki, Koichi Sunabe, Yumi Kono, Koji Takenoshita, Seiichi |
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description | Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 was isolated as the retrovirus to be identified in humans. Here, we focused on Ficus pumila L. as a factor that be effective against human T-cell leukemia virus type 1. The significant and novel findings is that symptoms of patients with drinking Ficus pumila L. extracts did not worsen despite a lack of aggressive pharmacotherapy against adult T-cell leukemia, a human T-cell leukemia virus type 1-associated myelopathy, or T-cell leukemia virus type 1 uveitis. Twenty-eight of the 194 inpatients who underwent showed high levels of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1. Among human T-cell leukemia virus type 1-infected patients, those who were administered Ficus pumila L. extracts had no human T-cell leukemia virus type 1-related symptoms, while those who were not administered Ficus pumila L. extracts had human T-cell leukemia virus type 1-related diseases and a significantly poorer prognosis. This suggests that the Ficus pumila L. extracts may show some utility against virus infection. |
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spelling | pubmed-78773322021-02-16 Ficus pumila L. improves the prognosis of patients infected with HTLV-1, an RNA virus Gonda, Kenji Suzuki, Koichi Sunabe, Yumi Kono, Koji Takenoshita, Seiichi Nutr J Letter to the Editor Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 was isolated as the retrovirus to be identified in humans. Here, we focused on Ficus pumila L. as a factor that be effective against human T-cell leukemia virus type 1. The significant and novel findings is that symptoms of patients with drinking Ficus pumila L. extracts did not worsen despite a lack of aggressive pharmacotherapy against adult T-cell leukemia, a human T-cell leukemia virus type 1-associated myelopathy, or T-cell leukemia virus type 1 uveitis. Twenty-eight of the 194 inpatients who underwent showed high levels of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1. Among human T-cell leukemia virus type 1-infected patients, those who were administered Ficus pumila L. extracts had no human T-cell leukemia virus type 1-related symptoms, while those who were not administered Ficus pumila L. extracts had human T-cell leukemia virus type 1-related diseases and a significantly poorer prognosis. This suggests that the Ficus pumila L. extracts may show some utility against virus infection. BioMed Central 2021-02-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7877332/ /pubmed/33573641 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12937-021-00672-x Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Letter to the Editor Gonda, Kenji Suzuki, Koichi Sunabe, Yumi Kono, Koji Takenoshita, Seiichi Ficus pumila L. improves the prognosis of patients infected with HTLV-1, an RNA virus |
title | Ficus pumila L. improves the prognosis of patients infected with HTLV-1, an RNA virus |
title_full | Ficus pumila L. improves the prognosis of patients infected with HTLV-1, an RNA virus |
title_fullStr | Ficus pumila L. improves the prognosis of patients infected with HTLV-1, an RNA virus |
title_full_unstemmed | Ficus pumila L. improves the prognosis of patients infected with HTLV-1, an RNA virus |
title_short | Ficus pumila L. improves the prognosis of patients infected with HTLV-1, an RNA virus |
title_sort | ficus pumila l. improves the prognosis of patients infected with htlv-1, an rna virus |
topic | Letter to the Editor |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7877332/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33573641 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12937-021-00672-x |
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