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flu drugs

Woden · 2004-02-15 12:12:36

i had an interesting lecture on friday about the development of flu drugs, for a start i didn't know there was drugs on the market for the flu virus. the ones the lecturer talked about where relenza and tamiflu i think. apparently the drugs target something that is essential for the flu virus to replicate, however the…

15-02-2004 12:12pm

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i had an interesting lecture on friday about the development of flu drugs, for a start i didn't know there was drugs on the market for the flu virus. the ones the lecturer talked about where relenza and tamiflu i think. apparently the drugs target something that is essential for the flu virus to replicate, however the trick was that both the flu virus and humans have this thing so the drug had to be make selective. 3d structural stuff showed the prescene of carboxyl groups though around the active site in the flu case which werent' present in our case which allowed an inibitor to be developed.

interesting stuff i thought some info here anyway

http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/fludrugs.htm

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