{"id":72,"date":"2020-05-11T14:43:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T14:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/research-and-scholarship\/?p=72"},"modified":"2020-05-12T13:42:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T13:42:55","slug":"antiviral-activity-of-psidium-guajava-against-herpes-simplex-type-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/test-page\/2020\/05\/11\/antiviral-activity-of-psidium-guajava-against-herpes-simplex-type-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Antiviral Activity of Psidium guajava Against Herpes Simplex Type 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Nadjet Cornejal, Claudia Melo<\/p>\n<p>Mentor Name: Dr. Jose Fernandez Romero &amp; Dr. Adolfina Koroch<\/p>\n<p>Abstract: Guava (Psidium guajava) is a small tree from the Myrtaceae family native to Central and South America. Scientists have suggested that chemicals isolated from the guava plant can have antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties. We performed preliminary studies to determine if a guava leaves extract has antiviral activity against herpes simplex type 1 (HSV-1). For this purpose, the XTT colorimetric assay was used to estimate cytotoxicity (toxicity in cells) while the plaque-reduction assay was used to test the anti-HSV-1 activity. Our results suggest that we have a selective antiviral activity with a therapeutic index higher than 750. This result warrants further evaluation of the potential use of this extract to treat HSV-1 infections.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A video of the Presentation <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/10zpx5EgbVLA7Aurbe5_35bw2suezmhsR\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"is here (opens in a new tab)\">is here<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/research-and-scholarship\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/382\/2020\/05\/Guava.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"top\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"on\">Guava<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Nadjet Cornejal, Claudia Melo Mentor Name: Dr. Jose Fernandez Romero &amp; Dr. Adolfina Koroch Abstract: Guava (Psidium guajava) is a small tree from the Myrtaceae family native to Central and South America. Scientists have suggested that chemicals isolated from the guava plant can have antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties. We performed preliminary studies to determine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[19,20,21,18,22],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bars-2020","8":"category-research","9":"tag-antimicrobial","10":"tag-antiviral","11":"tag-cytotoxicity","12":"tag-guava","13":"tag-hsv-1","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/test-page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/test-page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/test-page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/test-page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/test-page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/test-page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/test-page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/test-page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/test-page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/test-page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/test-page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/test-page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}