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Plandai Biotechnology Could Offer Potential Anti-Viral Protection With Phytofare(TM) Catechin Complex Entrapped in Pheroid(R)
Plandai Biotechnology Could Offer Potential Anti-Viral Protection With Phytofare(TM) Catechin Complex Entrapped in Pheroid(R).
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nPlandai Biotechnology Could Offer Potential Anti-Viral Protection With Phytofare(TM) Catechin Complex Entrapped in Pheroid(R) \n\nPlandai Biotechnology Could Offer Potential Anti-Viral Protection With Phytofare(TM) Catechin Complex Entrapped in Pheroid(R)\n\nNEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - November 18, 2014) - Plandaí Biotechnology (OTCQB: PLPL) entered into an agreement late last year with North West University in South Africa, that will allow it to use the Pheroid® technology to further increase bioavailability in its products.  This enhanced bioavailability allows Plandaí to offer a potential solution for many possible viral and infectious diseases.Infectious diseases rely on glycoproteins that bind the virus to healthy cells or T-cells, which are a type of white blood cells that play a major role in protecting the body from infection.  When the virus attaches, it enters into the healthy cell, taking its genetic material, replicating it, exhausting all the cells resources, killing the cell, and then exiting and repeating the process until the infected individual cell dies. Several independent investigations have determined that the catechins found in green tea, namely epigallocatechin gallate or EGCG, bond more strongly to healthy cells than viruses do, which blocks them and prevents the virus from entering the white blood cells.  Researchers at the Baylor School of Medicine and at Texas Children's Hospital have shown the ability of catechins to prevent binding of the virus protein to the white blood cells, but, of note, to be effective it requires an excessive dosage and a dosage with higher bioavailability.  Because generic green tea extracts cannot deliver enough of the catechins into the bloodstream and then get those catechins absorbed by the white blood cells, the true effectiveness of catechins in preventing or treating viruses is not known.For a drug or compound to have a therapeutic effect, it has to reach the site where it will take action in sufficient quantities. Which brings us back to Plandaí.  Plandaí's green tea-based Phytofare™ Catechin Complex has already shown in a clinical trial performed at North West University in South Africa that it offers ten times greater bioavailability than a commercially available green tea extract. The Company is now further ...