Purdue University scientists have developed a new treatment for influenza virus infection that may also prove effective against many disease-causing virus infections, including HIV and Corona.
On average, more than 2 million people in the United States are hospitalized with influenza, and 30,000 to 80,000 of them die from the flu or related complications.
According to the team’s work published in the magazine Nature Communications They are using a curative approach directed against the virus infection.
A new treatment for influenza may combat Corona –
The author of the study said: “We target all the antiviral drugs that we develop specifically for cells infected with the virus.” In this way, we treat diseased cells without harming healthy cells, and we use this ability to selectively deliver immune-stimulating drugs to cells infected with influenza, and there is also a possibility that this will prove Treatment is effective in people with diabetes Corona. “
The influenza virus, like many pathogenic viruses, exports its proteins to the surface of the host cell and then begins the process of spreading to the neighboring host cells, and since these exported viral proteins are not present in the membranes of healthy host cells.
The team took advantage of the presence of viral proteins in infected cells by designing guidance molecules that specifically target the drugs to cells infected with the virus, thus avoiding the collateral toxicity that occurs when antiviral drugs are taken by uninfected cells.
He said, “We chose to start our tests for influenza virus because the results are often applicable to other enveloped viruses.” “Our laboratory tests show that our process works in mice infected with influenza that have been vaccinated with 100 times the lethal dose of the virus.”
The lead author of the study said that the new treatment may prove effective against viral infections that cause other diseases such as hepatitis B HIV and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
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