UCLA researchers have come across an unexpected potential use for fluoxetine - commonly known as Prozac - which shows promise as an antiviral agent. The discovery could provide another tool in treating human enteroviruses that sicken and kill people in the U.S. and around the world. Human enteroviruses are members of a genus containing more than 100 distinct RNA viruses responsible for various life threatening infections, such as poliomyelitis and encephalitis...
Tuesday 31 July 2012
Prozac Found To Be Effective As An Anti-Viral
UCLA researchers have come across an unexpected potential use for fluoxetine - commonly known as Prozac - which shows promise as an antiviral agent. The discovery could provide another tool in treating human enteroviruses that sicken and kill people in the U.S. and around the world. Human enteroviruses are members of a genus containing more than 100 distinct RNA viruses responsible for various life threatening infections, such as poliomyelitis and encephalitis...
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