Current environmental concerns are increasingly forcing manufacturers to reduce the use of petroleum derivatives in order their carbon footprint. The new plant-based materials is therefore an interesting alternative plastics. A certain number plant fibers have been rediscovered for form agro-composites; Nettle fiber one them. objective this review thus take stock current knowledge on European (...

Boehmeria nivea extract (BNE) is widely used in southern Taiwan as a folk medicine for hepato-protection and hepatitis treatment. In previous studies, we demonstrated that BNE could reduce the supernatant hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA in HBV-producing HepG2 2.2.15 cells. In the present study, we established an animal model of HBV viremia and used it to validate the efficacy of BNE in vivo. In thi...