Current Research in Biotechnology (Jan 2025)
Exploring nutritional supplement use for countering respiratory tract infections through an X (formerly Twitter)-based survey
- Rajeev K. Singla,
- Himel Mondal,
- Shailja Singla,
- Ronita De,
- Sahar Behzad,
- Mihnea-Alexandru Găman,
- Siva Sai Chandragiri,
- Merisa Cenanovic,
- Jayanta Kumar Patra,
- Jennifer R. Depew,
- Hemanth Kumar Boyina,
- Abdulkadir Yusif Maigoro,
- Soojin Lee,
- Omar M. Atrooz,
- Gitishree Das,
- Fabien Schultz,
- Emad Mohamed Abdallah,
- Hitesh Chopra,
- Jamil Ahmad,
- Rupesh K. Gautam,
- Sourav S. Patnaik,
- Bey Hing Goh,
- Smith B. Babiaka,
- Sharad Vats,
- Michael P. Okoh,
- Atallah F. Ahmed,
- Ankit Kumar Dubey,
- Ronan Lordan,
- Parasuraman Aiya Subramani,
- Amit Kumar Singh,
- José M. Alvarez-Suarez,
- Dinesh Kumar Chellappan,
- Shravan Kumar Paswan,
- Prabhakar Semwal,
- Johra Khan,
- Sadeeq Sheshe,
- Neeraj Kumar Sethiya,
- Tomasz M. Karpiński,
- Muhammad Riaz,
- Zahra Emam-Djomeh,
- Girish Kumar Gupta,
- Reecha Madaan,
- Suresh Kumar,
- Neeraj Choudhary,
- Salvatore Parisi,
- Harald Willschke,
- Vasil Pirgozliev,
- Rehab A. Rayan,
- Valentin Ritschl,
- Shaikat Mondal,
- Gokhan Zengin,
- Pritt Verma,
- Bhupinder Kapoor,
- Monica Gulati,
- Gareeballah Osman Adam Balla,
- Dan Khoa Le,
- Valeria Pittalà,
- Amr El-Demerdash,
- Garba M. Khalid,
- Jesus Simal-Gandara,
- Qushmua E. Alzahrani,
- Gian Luigi Russo,
- Kiran R. Kharat,
- Anupam Bishayee,
- Dongdong Wang,
- Ilkay Erdogan Orhan,
- Hammad Ullah,
- Michael Heinrich,
- Bikash Baral,
- Nikolay T. Tzvetkov,
- Andy Wai Kan Yeung,
- João M.L. Dias-Ferreira,
- Scarlett Perez Olea,
- Yugal Kishore Mohanta,
- Azazahemad A. Kureshi,
- Claudiu T. Supuran,
- Neeraj Rani,
- Rohit Gundamaraju,
- Eoghan Joseph Mulholland,
- Sara Di Lonardo,
- Albena T. Dinkova-Kostova,
- Elena González-Burgos,
- Lucian Hritcu,
- Pravin Badhe,
- Abhilasha Singh,
- Fuad Al-Rimawi,
- Antoni Sureda,
- Rambod Abiri,
- Nady Braidy,
- Lorenz Kapral,
- A.N. Abdullahi,
- Christhian Delfino Villanueva Medina,
- Helen Sheridan,
- Massimo Lucarini,
- Alessandra Durazzo,
- Francesca Giampieri,
- Davide Barreca,
- Witkowska Anna Maria,
- José Carlos Andrade,
- Carmela Fimognari,
- Faizan Akram,
- Aleksei Tikhonov,
- Maurizio Battino,
- Akolade R. Oladipupo,
- Mila Emerald,
- Thomas Efferth,
- Said Amrani,
- Javier Echeverría,
- Anna Maria Louka,
- Surya Kant Tripathi,
- Bernd L. Fiebich,
- Nour Eddine Es-Safi,
- Shafaat Yar Khan,
- Vivek P. Chavda,
- Muhammad Asim Masoom Zubair,
- Samrina Hussain,
- Muhammad Fasih Ur Rahman,
- Joy Odimegwu,
- Jaroslaw Olav Horbanczuk,
- Hari Prasad Devkota,
- Alejandro Cifuentes,
- Rupinder Sodhi,
- Antonello Santini,
- Ourlad Alzeus G. Tantengco,
- Sandeep Ramchandra Pai,
- Ananda Kumar Chettupalli,
- Sebastian Granica,
- Nikola M. Stojanović,
- Devesh Tewari,
- Vineet Mittal,
- Vandana Garg,
- Mohammad Akhlaquer Rahman,
- Rajan Logesh,
- Ioana Berindan-Neagoe,
- Rohit Sharma,
- Artur Jóźwik,
- Maima Matin,
- Emil D. Parvanov,
- Nina Strzałkowska,
- Farhan Bin Matin,
- Olena Litvinova,
- Jivko Stoyanov,
- Monika Michalczuk,
- Bogumila Zima-Kulisiewicz,
- Okyaz Eminaga,
- Awanish Mishra,
- Nishat Jahan,
- Joanna Bensz,
- Tanuj Joshi,
- Aman Upaganlawar,
- Kiran Patni,
- Aleksandra Zielińska,
- Dalibor Hrg,
- Artur Stolarczyk,
- Olga Adamska,
- George Perry,
- Michał Ławiński,
- Agnieszka Kamińska,
- Mario Štefanović,
- Bodrun Naher Siddiquea,
- Sara Frazzini,
- Luciana Rossi,
- Marek Wieczorek,
- Michel Edwar Mickael,
- Leif-Alexander Garbe,
- Atanas G. Atanasov,
- Bairong Shen
Affiliations
- Rajeev K. Singla
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Institutes for Systems Genetics, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- Himel Mondal
- Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Deoghar, Jharkhand, India
- Shailja Singla
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Institutes for Systems Genetics, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China; iGlobal Research and Publishing Foundation, New Delhi, India
- Ronita De
- iGlobal Research and Publishing Foundation, New Delhi, India
- Sahar Behzad
- Evidence-based Phytotherapy and Complementary Medicine Research Center, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran
- Mihnea-Alexandru Găman
- Department of Hematology, Center for Clinical and Basic Research (CCBR Clinic), Bucharest, Romania; Department of Cellular and Molecular Pathology, Stefan S. Nicolau Institute of Virology, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
- Siva Sai Chandragiri
- Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
- Merisa Cenanovic
- Independent Researcher, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Jayanta Kumar Patra
- Research Institute of Integrative Life Sciences, Dongguk University-Seoul, Goyang-Si, Republic of Korea
- Jennifer R. Depew
- Independent Researcher, USA
- Hemanth Kumar Boyina
- University Institute of Pharma Sciences, Chandigarh University, Mohali 140413, Punjab, India
- Abdulkadir Yusif Maigoro
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
- Soojin Lee
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
- Omar M. Atrooz
- Department of Biological Sciences, Mutah University, Jordan
- Gitishree Das
- Research Institute of Integrative Life Sciences, Dongguk University-Seoul, Goyang-Si, Republic of Korea
- Fabien Schultz
- Ethnopharmacology and Zoopharmacognosy, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Germany; Ethnopharmacology & Zoopharmacognosy Research Group, Department of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
- Emad Mohamed Abdallah
- Department of Biology, College of Science, Qassim University, Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia; Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, INTI International University, Persiaran Perdana BBN, Putra Nilai, 71800 Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
- Hitesh Chopra
- Department of Biosciences, Saveetha School of Engineering, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai 602105 Tamil Nadu, India
- Jamil Ahmad
- Department of Human Nutrition, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 25120, Pakistan
- Rupesh K. Gautam
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Institutes for Systems Genetics, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China; Department of Pharmacology, Indore Institute of Pharmacy, IIST Campus, Rau, Indore 453331 (M.P.), India
- Sourav S. Patnaik
- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
- Bey Hing Goh
- Sunway Biofunctional Molecules Discovery Centre (SBMDC), School of Medical and Life Sciences, Sunway University, Sunway City 47500, Malaysia; Biofunctional Molecule Exploratory (BMEX) Research Group, School of Pharmacy, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway 47500, Malaysia; College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou 310058, China
- Smith B. Babiaka
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, P.O. Box 63, Buea, Cameroon
- Sharad Vats
- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India
- Michael P. Okoh
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Institutes for Systems Genetics, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China; Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Abuja, P.M.B 117 FCT, Abuja, Nigeria
- Atallah F. Ahmed
- Department of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia; Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
- Ankit Kumar Dubey
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Institutes for Systems Genetics, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China; iGlobal Research and Publishing Foundation, New Delhi, India
- Ronan Lordan
- Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Parasuraman Aiya Subramani
- Thünen Institute for Fisheries Ecology, Herwigstraße 31, 27572 Bremerhaven, Germany
- Amit Kumar Singh
- Department of Botany, B. M. K. Govt. Girls College Balod, (Hemchand Yadav University), 491226 Chhattisgarh, India
- José M. Alvarez-Suarez
- Departamento de Ingeniería en Alimentos, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías. Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
- Dinesh Kumar Chellappan
- Department of Life Sciences, School of Pharmacy, International Medical University, Bukit Jalil 57000, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Shravan Kumar Paswan
- Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow Campus, Lucknow 226010, India
- Prabhakar Semwal
- Department of Life Sciences, Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun, UK, India
- Johra Khan
- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Majmaah University, 11952 Al Majmaah, Saudi Arabia
- Sadeeq Sheshe
- Department of Biochemistry, Kano University of Science & Technology, Nigeria
- Neeraj Kumar Sethiya
- Faculty of Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical and Populations Health Informatics, DIT University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248009, India
- Tomasz M. Karpiński
- Chair and Department of Medical Microbiology, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Rokietnicka 10, 60-806 Poznań, Poland
- Muhammad Riaz
- Department of Pharmacy, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Sheringal, Pakistan
- Zahra Emam-Djomeh
- Transfer Properties Laboratory (TPL), Department of Food Science, Technology and Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran
- Girish Kumar Gupta
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Sri Sai College of Pharmacy, Badhani, Pathankot 145001 Punjab, India
- Reecha Madaan
- Adesh college of Pharmacy, NH 1, Mohri, Shahabad, Kurukshetra, Haryana 136135, India
- Suresh Kumar
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research, Punjabi University, Patiala, India
- Neeraj Choudhary
- School of Pharmacy, GNA University, Phagwara, Punjab, India
- Salvatore Parisi
- Lourdes Matha Institute of Hotel Management and Catering Technology, India
- Harald Willschke
- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, 1090 Vienna, Austria; Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Medicine, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Vasil Pirgozliev
- Harper Adams University, Newport, Shropshire TF10 8ND, United Kingdom
- Rehab A. Rayan
- Department of Epidemiology, High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Egypt
- Valentin Ritschl
- Section for Outcomes Research, Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics, and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Arthritis and Rehabilitation, Vienna, Austria
- Shaikat Mondal
- Department of Physiology, Raiganj Govt. Medical College and Hospital, WB, India
- Gokhan Zengin
- Department of Biology, Science Faculty, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey
- Pritt Verma
- Goel Institute of Pharmacy and Sciences, Lucknow, India
- Bhupinder Kapoor
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India
- Monica Gulati
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India
- Gareeballah Osman Adam Balla
- Department of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, Sudan University of Science and Technology, Khartoum-North 11311, Khartoum, Sudan
- Dan Khoa Le
- Independent Researcher, Berlin, Germany
- Valeria Pittalà
- Department of Drug and Health Science, University of Catania, Catania 95125, Italy
- Amr El-Demerdash
- Metabolic Biology & Biological Chemistry Department, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom; Organic Chemistry Division, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
- Garba M. Khalid
- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kingston University London, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, KT1 2EE, United Kingdom
- Jesus Simal-Gandara
- Universidade de Vigo, Nutrition and Bromatology Group, Analytical Chemistry and Food Science Department, Faculty of Science, E32004 Ourense, Spain
- Qushmua E. Alzahrani
- Department of Pharmacy/Nursing Medicine Health and Environment, University of the Region of Joinville (UNIVILLE) Brazil, Sana Catarina, Joinville, Brazil
- Gian Luigi Russo
- National Research Council, Institute of Food Sciences, 83100, Avellino, Italy
- Kiran R. Kharat
- V.G. Vaze College (Autonomous), Mulund, Mumbai 400081, India
- Anupam Bishayee
- College of Osteopathic Medicine, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Bradenton, FL 34211, USA
- Dongdong Wang
- Centre for Metabolism, Obesity, and Diabetes Research, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
- Ilkay Erdogan Orhan
- Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Lokman Hekim University, 06510 Ankara, Türkiye; Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA), Vedat Dalokay Cad., No. 112, 06670 Ankara, Türkiye
- Hammad Ullah
- Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy
- Michael Heinrich
- Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy, United Kingdom
- Bikash Baral
- Institute of Biological Resources, Kathmandu, Nepal
- Nikolay T. Tzvetkov
- Department of Biochemical Pharmacology and Drug Design, Institute of Molecular Biology “Roumen Tsanev”, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
- Andy Wai Kan Yeung
- Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Applied Oral Sciences and Community Dental Care, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- João M.L. Dias-Ferreira
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Alameda Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, Porto 4200-319, Portugal
- Scarlett Perez Olea
- Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, Mexico
- Yugal Kishore Mohanta
- Nano-biotechnology and Translational Knowledge Laboratory, Department of Applied Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Science and Technology Meghalaya (USTM), Techno City, 9th Mile, Baridua, Ri-Bhoi 793101 Meghalaya, India; Centre for Herbal Pharmacology and Environmental Sustainability, Chettinad Hospital and Research Institute, Chettinad Academy of Research and Education, kelambakkam 603103 Tamil Nadu, India
- Azazahemad A. Kureshi
- Department of Chemistry, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India
- Claudiu T. Supuran
- University of Florence, Neurofarba Department, Sezione di Chimica Farmaceutica, Via Ugo Schiff 6, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Florence), Italy
- Neeraj Rani
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chaudhary Bansi Lal University, Bhiwani, India
- Rohit Gundamaraju
- ER stress and Mucosal Immunology Team, School of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
- Eoghan Joseph Mulholland
- Gastrointestinal Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Somerville College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Sara Di Lonardo
- Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems-National Research Council (IRET-CNR), Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Fi), Italy
- Albena T. Dinkova-Kostova
- Division of Cellular and Systems Medicine, University of Dundee School of Medicine, Dundee. United Kingdom
- Elena González-Burgos
- Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy and Botany, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain
- Lucian Hritcu
- Department of Biology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Bd. Carol I, No. 11, Iasi 700506, Romania
- Pravin Badhe
- Swalife Foundation India; Swalife Biotech Ltd, Ireland; Sinhgad College of Pharmacy, Vadgaon (BK), Pune 411041, India
- Abhilasha Singh
- MGH/Harvard Medical School, USA
- Fuad Al-Rimawi
- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science and Technology, Al-Quds University, P.O. Box 20002, Jerusalem, Palestine
- Antoni Sureda
- Research Group in Community Nutrition and Oxidative Stress (NUCOX), University of Balearic Islands, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain; CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), 28029 Madrid, Spain; Health Research Institute of Balearic Islands (IdISBa), 07120 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
- Rambod Abiri
- Department of Forestry Science and Biodiversity, Faculty of Forestry and Environment, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Seri Kembangan 43400, Malaysia; Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
- Nady Braidy
- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- Lorenz Kapral
- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, 1090 Vienna, Austria
- A.N. Abdullahi
- Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil, Nigeria
- Christhian Delfino Villanueva Medina
- Universidad de la Ciénega del Estado de Michoacán de Ocampo, Licenciatura en Genómica alimentaria, Mexico
- Helen Sheridan
- NatPro Centre. School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland; Faculty of Pharmacy, Biruni University, Istanbul, TR-34015, Türkiye
- Massimo Lucarini
- CREA-Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Via Ardeatina, 546, 00178 Rome, Italy
- Alessandra Durazzo
- CREA-Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Via Ardeatina, 546, 00178 Rome, Italy
- Francesca Giampieri
- Research Group on Food, Nutritional Biochemistry and Health, Universidad Europea del Atlántico, Santander, Spain
- Davide Barreca
- Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, Università degli Studi di Messina, Messina, Italy
- Witkowska Anna Maria
- Department of Food Biotechnology, Medical University of Bialystok, Poland
- José Carlos Andrade
- TOXRUN – Toxicology Research Unit, University Institute of Health Sciences – CESPU (IUCS-CESPU), 4585-116 Gandra PRD, Portugal
- Carmela Fimognari
- Dept. For Life Quality Studies, University of Bologna, Italy
- Faizan Akram
- Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur Pakistan
- Aleksei Tikhonov
- Gustave Roussy, France
- Maurizio Battino
- International Joint Research Laboratory of Intelligent Agriculture and Agri-products Processing, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China; Research Group on Foods, Nutritional Biochemistry and Health, Universidad Europea del Atlántico, Isabel Torres, 21, 39011 Santander, Spain; Department of Clinical Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona 60131, Italy
- Akolade R. Oladipupo
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lagos, Nigeria
- Mila Emerald
- PHYTOCEUTICALS International, Canada
- Thomas Efferth
- Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, Johannes Gutenberg University. Mainz, Germany
- Said Amrani
- Laboratoire de Biologie et de Physiologie des Organismes, Faculté des Sciences Biologiques, Université des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari Boumediène, BP 32 El Alia, Alger 16 111 Algeria
- Javier Echeverría
- Departamento de Ciencias del Ambiente, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile
- Anna Maria Louka
- General Hospital of Corfu, University of Thessaly, Greece
- Surya Kant Tripathi
- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC-27514, USA
- Bernd L. Fiebich
- Neuroimmunology and Neurochemistry Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Freiburg, Germany
- Nour Eddine Es-Safi
- Mohammed V University in Rabat, LPCMIO, Materials Science Center (MSC), Ecole Normale Supérieure, Rabat, Morocco
- Shafaat Yar Khan
- Department of Zoology, Government College University Lahore, Pakistan
- Vivek P. Chavda
- Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology, L M College of Pharmacy, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
- Muhammad Asim Masoom Zubair
- Department of Pharmaceutics, the Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan
- Samrina Hussain
- Department of Drug Design & Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Muhammad Fasih Ur Rahman
- Faculty of Pharmacy, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan
- Joy Odimegwu
- Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lagos, Nigeria
- Jaroslaw Olav Horbanczuk
- Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Postepu 36A, Magdalenka, Jastrzebiec 05-552, Poland
- Hari Prasad Devkota
- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
- Alejandro Cifuentes
- Foodomics Lab, CIAL, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
- Rupinder Sodhi
- Chandigarh College of Pharmacy, Landran, Mohali, India
- Antonello Santini
- Department of Pharmacy, University of Napoli Federico II, Via D. Montesano 49, 80131 Napoli Italy
- Ourlad Alzeus G. Tantengco
- Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines
- Sandeep Ramchandra Pai
- Department of Botany, Rayat Shikshan Sanstha’s, Dada Patil Mahavidyalaya, Karjat, Dist. Ahmednagar, Maharashtra 414402, India
- Ananda Kumar Chettupalli
- Center for Nanomedicine, Dept. of Pharmaceutics, Anurag University, Ghatkesar, Hyderabad, India
- Sebastian Granica
- Microbiota Lab, Department of Biology and Pharmacognosy, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
- Nikola M. Stojanović
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Niš, Niš. Serbia
- Devesh Tewari
- Department of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Delhi Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research University, New Delhi 110017, India
- Vineet Mittal
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak 124001 Haryana, India
- Vandana Garg
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak 124001 Haryana, India
- Mohammad Akhlaquer Rahman
- Department of Pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia
- Rajan Logesh
- Department of Pharmacognosy, SRM College of Pharmacy, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur 603203, Tamil Nadu, India
- Ioana Berindan-Neagoe
- Research Center for Functional Genomics, Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Rohit Sharma
- Department of Rasa Shastra and Bhaishajya Kalpana, Faculty of Ayurveda, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005 Uttar Pradesh, India
- Artur Jóźwik
- Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec 05-552 Magdalenka, Poland
- Maima Matin
- Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec 05-552 Magdalenka, Poland
- Emil D. Parvanov
- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, 1090 Vienna, Austria; Department of Translational Stem Cell Biology, Research Institute of the Medical University of Varna, Varna, Bulgaria
- Nina Strzałkowska
- Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec 05-552 Magdalenka, Poland
- Farhan Bin Matin
- Department of Pharmacy, East West University, Aftabnagar, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Olena Litvinova
- National University of Pharmacy of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine; Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, 1090 Vienna, Austria
- Jivko Stoyanov
- Swiss Paraplegic Research, Nottwil, Switzerland
- Monika Michalczuk
- Department of Animal Breeding, Institute of Animal Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Ciszewskiego 8 St., 02-786 Warsaw, Poland
- Bogumila Zima-Kulisiewicz
- Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec 05-552 Magdalenka, Poland
- Okyaz Eminaga
- AI VOBIS, Palo Alto, USA
- Awanish Mishra
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) - Guwahati, Changsari, Kamrup, Assam 781101, India
- Nishat Jahan
- Department of Pharmacy, University of Asia Pacific, 74/A, Green Road, Farmgate Dhaka - 1205, Bangladesh
- Joanna Bensz
- Longevity Center, Belwederska 9, 00-761 Warszawa, Poland
- Tanuj Joshi
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Bhimtal, Kumaun University (Nainital), Uttarakhand, India
- Aman Upaganlawar
- SNJB’s SSDJ College of Pharmacy, Chandwad, Nashik, India
- Kiran Patni
- School of Allied Sciences, Graphic Era Hill University, Bhimtal Campus, Uttarakhand, India
- Aleksandra Zielińska
- Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Natural Fibres and Medicinal Plants, National Research Institute, Wojska Polskiego 71B, 60-630 Poznań, Poland
- Dalibor Hrg
- Hrg Scientific, Croatia; Artificial Intelligence and Innovation in Healthcare Lab, AI2H Laboratory, Croatia
- Artur Stolarczyk
- Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Medical University of Warsaw, 61 Zwirki i Wigury St., 02-091 Warsaw, Poland
- Olga Adamska
- Department of Ophthalmology, Collegium Medicum, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, 5 Dewajtis St., 01-815 Warsaw, Poland
- George Perry
- Department of Neuroscience, Development and Regenerative Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
- Michał Ławiński
- Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec 05-552 Magdalenka, Poland; Department of General, Gastroenterologic and Oncologic Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
- Agnieszka Kamińska
- Faculty of Medicine, Collegium Medicum, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, 01-815 Warsaw, Poland
- Mario Štefanović
- University Hospital Center Sestre Milosrdnice, University Department of Chemistry, Vinogradska cesta 29, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
- Bodrun Naher Siddiquea
- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Sara Frazzini
- Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences – DIVAS, University of Milan, Via dell’Università 6, 26900 Lodi, Italy
- Luciana Rossi
- Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences – DIVAS, University of Milan, Via dell’Università 6, 26900 Lodi, Italy
- Marek Wieczorek
- Department of Neurobiology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, 141/143 Pomorska street, 90-236 Lodz, Poland
- Michel Edwar Mickael
- Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec 05-552 Magdalenka, Poland
- Leif-Alexander Garbe
- Ethnopharmacology & Zoopharmacognosy Research Group, Department of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
- Atanas G. Atanasov
- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, 1090 Vienna, Austria; Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec 05-552 Magdalenka, Poland; Laboratory of Natural Products and Medicinal Chemistry (LNPMC), Center for Global Health Research, Saveetha Medical College and Hospital, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (SIMATS), Thandalam, Chennai, India; Corresponding author at: Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
- Bairong Shen
- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Institutes for Systems Genetics, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China; Corresponding author at: Department of Critical Care Medicine and Institutes for Systems Genetics, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9
p. 100282
Abstract
Background: Respiratory tract infections are a common health issue, driving interest in preventive strategies like nutritional supplements, while evidence on their usage and effectiveness remains limited. In this context, social media platforms, particularly X (formerly Twitter), provide a unique opportunity to gather large-scale public health-related data. Objectives: In this study, we aimed to survey participants’ uses and opinions on nutritional supplements in prevention or treatment of respiratory tract infections, by using X. Methods: A survey was conducted between 1st and 15th December 2022. A single open-ended question “Which are the best dietary supplements to counteract respiratory infections?“ was asked. One week after the start of the survey, a poll was posted to get more relevant information and boost the survey’s reach. Total endorsements were calculated for each tweet posted as the total sum of replies, retweets, and likes. Results: The open-ended question received a total of 118 retweets, 39 quotes, and 371 likes, while the poll received 56 retweets, 13 quotes, and 67 likes. A total of 495 replies, 2,251 retweets, 5,118 likes, and 148 quotes were received for the question and its related tweets. Vitamin D (1,607 endorsements), zinc (1,347 endorsements), vitamin C (803 endorsements), magnesium (694 endorsements), and honey (661 endorsements) were the nutritional supplements that received most endorsements. Conclusion: Various foods, drinks, and natural ingredients have been suggested as potentially helpful for counteracting respiratory infections. Approximately half of respondents indicated using such supplements for themselves. The result of this study supports the idea that the X platform can be used as an effective survey tool to study global health-related behaviours and trends.
