A home - brewing technique used to extract morphine from unwashed poppy seeds can
produce lethal doses of the drug, according to research at Sam Houston State University.
Not exact matches
Led by Bavari and Travis Warren, Ph.D., the USAMRIID team performed a series of studies involving a
lethal challenge with Marburg virus in nonhuman primates to determine the efficacious
dose and regimen of AVI - 7288, as well as to characterize the drug exposures in animals that
produced efficacy.
Similarly, mice treated with a compound that inhibits PGE2 showed enhanced antiviral immunity and
produced better survival rates following infection with a
lethal dose of the flu virus compared with untreated mice.
When the researchers exposed chickens to
lethal doses of the avian influenza virus and the Newcastle virus, birds inoculated with the recombinant vaccine
produced antibodies against both viruses, offering protection against both diseases.