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Australian scientists replace coronavirus vaccine with drugs
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The drugs created by the researchers do not affect the SARS-CoV-2 itself, which causes the disease, but the cells that it damages.
Australian scientists have found a way to replace the COVID-19 vaccine with drugs. This was announced on Tuesday, May 25, at the Medical Research Institute. Berghofer in Brisbane. The research results are published in a scientific journal Nature Cell Discovery.
Medicines for the prevention and treatment of various forms of coronavirus are already being tested in French laboratories on animals.
The first experiments proved their safety and effectiveness.
Scientists argue that new drugs do not require special storage conditions.
The drugs created do not affect SARS-CoV-2 itself, but the cells that it damages. According to Professor Sudha Rao, one of them “masks the ACE2 receptor protein that the coronavirus uses to enter the cell,” while the other increases the ability of the immune system to recognize the virus and thus can fight it.
“We found that people with chemically blocked ACE2 receptors are less susceptible to infection with SARS-CoV-2. The first drug protects unblocked ACE2 receptors from infection, and the second prevents the active spread of infection by keeping the receptor blocked even after infection.” approved by the expert.
In case of successful clinical trials, the first drug can be used together with vaccination to prevent infection, and the second to stop the replication of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in patients.
We will remind, earlier scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in the USA discovered nine new ways to treat coronavirus, three of which have already been approved by the FDA and are used by patients with other diseases.
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