• FluTrackers.com Inc. does not provide medical advice. Information on this web site is collected from various internet resources, and the FluTrackers board of directors makes no warranty to the safety, efficacy, correctness or completeness of the information posted on this site by any author or poster. The information collated here is for instructional and/or discussion purposes only and is NOT intended to diagnose or treat any disease, illness, or other medical condition. Every individual reader or poster should seek advice from their personal physician/healthcare practitioner before considering or using any interventions that are discussed on this website. By continuing to access this website you agree to consult your personal physican before using any interventions posted on this website, and you agree to hold harmless FluTrackers.com Inc., the board of directors, the members, and all authors and posters for any effects from use of any medication, supplement, vitamin or other substance, device, intervention, etc. mentioned in posts on this website, or other internet venues referenced in posts on this website.
  • We are not asking for any donations. Do not donate to any entity who says they are raising funds for us.

Protection of ferrets from pulmonary injury due to H1N1 2009 influenza virus infection: Immunopathology tractable by sphingosine-1-phosphate 1 recepto

tetano

Editor, Senior Moderator
Virology. 2014 Mar;452-453:152-7. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2014.01.003. Epub 2014 Jan 31.
Protection of ferrets from pulmonary injury due to H1N1 2009 influenza virus infection: Immunopathology tractable by sphingosine-1-phosphate 1 receptor agonist therapy.
Teijaro JR1, Walsh KB2, Long JP3, Tordoff KP4, Stark GV5, Eisfeld AJ6, Kawaoka Y7, Rosen H8, Oldstone MB9.
Author information
Abstract

Influenza infection of humans remains an important public health problem. Vaccine strategies result in a significant but only partial control (65-85%) of infection. Thus, chemotherapeutic approaches are needed to provide a solution both for vaccine failures and to limit infection in the unvaccinated population. Previously (Walsh et al., 2011; Teijaro et al., 2011) documented that sphingosine-1-phosphate 1 receptor (S1P1R) agonists significantly protected mice against pathogenic H1N1 influenza virus by limiting immunopathologic damage while allowing host control of the infection. Here we extend that observation by documenting S1P1R agonist can control pathogenic H1N1 influenza infection in ferrets. S1P1R agonist was more effective in reducing pulmonary injury than the antiviral drug oseltamivir but, importantly, combined therapy was significantly more effective than either therapy alone.

Copyright ? 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
KEYWORDS:

Ferrets, H1N1 influenza, Oseltamivir, Pathogenesis, RP-002, S1P1 Rec agonist

PMID:
24606692
[PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24606692
 
Back
Top Bottom