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US 2010/0137431 A1Published application
Use of substances that act as cascade inhibitors of the raf/mek/erk signal cascade, for producing a medicament to treat dna and rna viruses
OwnerStephan Ludwig, Stephan Pleschkainventors
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Abstract
The invention consists in that substances acting as cascade inhibitors of the Raf/MEK/ERK signaling pathway, in particular MEK inhibitors, are used for the production of a drug for the preventive and antiviral therapy against DNA and RNA viruses, in particular against intranuclear-replicating negative strand RNA viruses, for instance influenza or Borna disease viruses.
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A method of using a MEK inhibitor to treat infections caused by negative strand RNA viruses comprising administering in a mammal a drug comprising the MEK inhibitor 1,4-diamino-2,3-dicyano-1,4-bis[2-aminophenylthio]butadiene.
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