Interferon prophylaxis of the common cold

Interferon is a potential prophylactic agent for the common cold. But there are problems. The present levels of side-effects that have been observed don't justify its use in the long term. Robert Phillpotts describes the mechanism of interferon action and the future hopes and developments for i...

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Autor principal: Phillpotts, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Ltd. 1984
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Tips Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7172481/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0165-6147(84)90509-1
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spelling pubmed-71724812020-04-22 Interferon prophylaxis of the common cold Phillpotts, Robert Trends Pharmacol Sci Tips Review Interferon is a potential prophylactic agent for the common cold. But there are problems. The present levels of side-effects that have been observed don't justify its use in the long term. Robert Phillpotts describes the mechanism of interferon action and the future hopes and developments for its use in preventing colds. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 1984 2003-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7172481/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0165-6147(84)90509-1 Text en Copyright © 1984 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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