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The calcium channel inhibitor lacidipine inhibits Zika virus replication in neural progenitor cells
31 Mar 2022
Abstract excerpt
After decades of being considered non-pathogenic, Zika virus (ZIKV) emerged as an important threat to human health during the epidemic of 2015–2016. ZIKV infections are usually asymptomatic, but can cause Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults and microcephaly in newborns. As there are currently no approved antiviral drugs against ZIKV, we tested anti-ZIKV activity of compounds from the NIH Clinical Collection for...
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