Combating the threat of pandemic influenza
Subtitle: drug discovery approaches
By: edited by Paul F. Torrence.
Contributors: Torrence, Paul F.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780470118795
Subjects: Antiviral agents; Influenza -- Chemotherapy; Influenza, Human -- drug therapy; Influenza, Human -- prevention & control; Antiviral Agents -- therapeutic use; Disease Outbreaks -- prevention & control; Drug Design; Influenza Vaccines -- therapeutic use
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Existing influenza antivirals: the mechanisms of action and potential in the face of avial influenza / Erik De Clercq; title: Development of high-throughput screening assays for influenza / Diana L. Noah, E. Lucile White, and James W. Noah; title: Mechanisms of IFN resistance by influenza virus / Heather J. Ezelle and Bret A. Hassel; title: Broadly effective anti-respiratory virus agents / Shiro Shigeta; title: Current status on development of nucleic acid-based antiviral drugs against influenza virus infection / Jonathan P. Wong ... [et al.]; title: Antiviral RNAi strategies targeting influenza virus and other respiratory viruses / Joost Haasnoot and Ben Berkhout; title: Promising antiviral glyco-molecules from edible algae / Toshimitsu Hayashi ... [et al.]; title: Rational design of an anti-adhesion drug for influenza / Nicolai V. Bovin and Alexandra S. Gambaryan; title: Understanding influenza neuraminidase inhibitors using quantitative structure? Activity relationship (QSAR) models / Rajeshwar P. Verma and Corwin Hansch; title: Peptide inhibitors targeting virus-cell fusion in Class 1 enveloped viruses / George F. Gao; title: Novel approaches to influenza therapeutics / Mang Yu and Lori Aschenbrenner.