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ScienceDaily (Feb. 4, 2008) — A compound that naturally occurs in grapefruit and other citrus fruits may be able to block the secretion of hepatitis C virus (HCV) from infected cells, a process required to maintain chronic infection. A team of researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Engineering in Medicine (MGH-CEM) report that HCV is bound to very low-density lipoprotein (vLDL, a so-called "bad" cholesterol) when it is secreted from liver cells and that the viral secretion required to pass infection to other cells may be blocked by the common flavonoid naringenin. MORE INFO https://www.hepatitiscfree.com/appieshop/index.cgi?mhhepatiSTORE:CKIE:prodNaringenin+ http://lloydwright.org/Hepatitis/index.php?searchword=naringenin&option=com_search&Itemid=5

• Release Date

  Jan 27, 2009

• Runtime

  06:23