Nutritional immunity: the battle for nutrient metals at the host–pathogen interface

CC Murdoch, EP Skaar - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Trace metals are essential micronutrients required for survival across all kingdoms of life.
From bacteria to animals, metals have critical roles as both structural and catalytic cofactors …

Enhancing immunity in viral infections, with special emphasis on COVID-19: A review

R Jayawardena, P Sooriyaarachchi… - Diabetes & Metabolic …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background and aims Balanced nutrition which can help in maintaining immunity is
essential for prevention and management of viral infections. While data regarding nutrition in …

[HTML][HTML] Nutrition, immunity and COVID-19

PC Calder - BMJ nutrition, prevention & health, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The immune system protects the host from pathogenic organisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi,
parasites). To deal with this array of threats, the immune system has evolved to include a …

Herbal immune-boosters: Substantial warriors of pandemic Covid-19 battle

K Khanna, SK Kohli, R Kaur, A Bhardwaj, V Bhardwaj… - Phytomedicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Current scenario depicts that world has been clenched by COVID-19 pandemic. Inevitably,
public health and safety measures could be undertaken in order to dwindle the infection …

Potential of copper and copper compounds for anticancer applications

P Ji, P Wang, H Chen, Y Xu, J Ge, Z Tian, Z Yan - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Inducing cancer cell death has always been a research hotspot in life sciences. With the
continuous deepening and diversification of related research, the potential value of metal …

Biomedical applications of copper ionophores

V Oliveri - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Copper dyshomeostasis is associated with a plethora of diseases, supporting the possibility
of applying copper ionophores to regenerate the metal homeostasis and treat copper …

Cu homeostasis in bacteria: the ins and outs

A Andrei, Y Öztürk, B Khalfaoui-Hassani, J Rauch… - Membranes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Copper (Cu) is an essential trace element for all living organisms and used as cofactor in
key enzymes of important biological processes, such as aerobic respiration or superoxide …

Importance of dietary changes during the coronavirus pandemic: how to upgrade your immune response

A Chaari, G Bendriss, D Zakaria… - Frontiers in Public …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The new coronavirus pandemic continues to spread causing further public health, social,
and economic issues. The disparities in the rates of death between countries poses …

nCOVID-19 pandemic: from molecular pathogenesis to potential investigational therapeutics

MT Kabir, MS Uddin, MF Hossain… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In December 2019, a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-
related epidemic was first observed in Wuhan, China. In 2020, owing to the highly infectious …

Copper regulation of immune response and potential implications for treating orthopedic disorders

Y Liu, J Zhu, L Xu, B Wang, W Lin… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Copper is an indispensable trace metal element in human body, and copper deficiency is
rare in clinic. However, diseases associated with serum copper deficiency, such as …