| Literature DB >> 21854808 |
Jinhong Chang1, Wouter Schul, Andy Yip, Xiaodong Xu, Ju-Tao Guo, Timothy M Block.
Abstract
Dengue virus infection causes diseases in people, ranging from the acute febrile illness dengue fever, to life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome. We previously reported that a host cellular α-glucosidases I and II inhibitor, imino sugar CM-10-18, potently inhibited dengue virus replication in cultured cells, and significantly reduced viremia in dengue virus infected AG129 mice. In this report we show that CM-10-18 also significantly protects mice from death and/or disease progress in two mouse models of lethal dengue virus infection. Our results thus provide a strong support for the development of CM-10-18 or its derivatives as antiviral agents to treat servere dengue virus infections.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21854808 PMCID: PMC3209657 DOI: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2011.08.003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antiviral Res ISSN: 0166-3542 Impact factor: 5.970