Sentences with phrase «drugs against influenza»

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Antiviral drugs amantadine and rimantadine, which for years were the most widely used against influenza A viruses, plugged the M2 pathway like bathtub stoppers, preventing reproduction.

The researchers said that identifying this virus sensor, called ZBP1, offers the hope of developing drugs to protect against influenza's sometimes lethal complication of pneumonia.

In an ambitious study, the authors attempt to trace drug resistance against all strains of the flu by using an extensive influenza virus database containing all known genetic sequence information (70,000 complete nucleotide sequences) for influenza strains.

The transmissible viruses were sensitive to the antiviral drug oseltamivir and reacted well with antisera raised against H5 influenza vaccine strains.

«Researchers synthesize active molecules against drug - resistant mutants of influenza A virus.»

Moreover, the team led by Santiago Vázquez has adequately modified the polycyclic structure to prepare compounds with high antiviral activity, including against several drug - resistant mutants of influenza A virus.

«But since these drugs inhibit all prostanoids, each may contribute differently towards the immunity against influenza virus,» says Francois Coulombe, a McGill Ph.D. student and the study's first author.

In the search for drugs that act broadly against different influenza strains, researchers had previously shown that antibodies against the HA stem region can prevent influenza infection.

But Markovitz and his co-senior author Hashim M. Al - Hashimi, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry at Duke University and formerly professor of chemistry and biophysics at U-M, hope that their team's work can help address the lack of antiviral drugs that work well against many viruses or against viruses that change rapidly, such as influenza.