protease inhibitors
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Protease inhibitors are an example of designer drugs. They sometimes allow AIDS to be managed for long periods of time.
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Pfizer's drug, part of a class known as protease inhibitors, is designed to block an enzyme the coronavirus needs in order to multiply.
From Reuters • Nov. 5, 2021
Many protease inhibitors are approved for HIV treatment, and Pfizer’s compound has a nearly 20-year history.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 5, 2021
That window is rather narrow for all polymerase and protease inhibitors.
From Scientific American • Sep. 29, 2020
Chee chronicles their involvement with activist organizations like Act Up/SF and Queer Nation in the long years before the advent of protease inhibitors.
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2018
Signals that activate resistance traits, such as anti-digestive protease inhibitors, can be wafted on the wind or transmitted through the underground mycorrhizal networks, built by fungi, that connect plants.
From Nature • Feb. 28, 2017
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