AUTHOR=Shao Qingqing , Liu Tong , Wang Wenjia , Liu Tianli , Jin Ximing , Chen Zhuo TITLE=Promising Role of Emodin as Therapeutics to Against Viral Infections JOURNAL=Frontiers in Pharmacology VOLUME=13 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pharmacology/articles/10.3389/fphar.2022.902626 DOI=10.3389/fphar.2022.902626 ISSN=1663-9812 ABSTRACT=
Emodin is an anthraquinone derivative that is widely present in natural plants and has a wide spectrum of pharmacological effects, such as antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-fibrotic and anticancer and so on. Through reviewing studies on antiviral effect of emodin in the past decades, we found that emodin exhibits ability of inhibiting the infection and replication of more than 10 viruses