Inhibition of Japanese encephalitis virus replication in cultured cells and mice by a peptide-conjugated morpholino oligomer

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 953-961

  Anantpadma, Manu ^a   Stein, David A ^b   Vrati, Sudhanshu ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c THSTI   (India)

Author keywords

Antisense; Antiviral; Flavivirus; JEV; PPMO

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; P 10882; PEPTIDE CONJUGATED PHOSPHORODIAMIDATE MORPHOLINO OLIGOMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VERO CELL; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS REPLICATION; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS; DRUG EFFECT; EPITHELIUM CELL; SURVIVAL; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, JAPANESE; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEURONS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PEPTIDES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953688423     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkq074     Document Type: Article

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