Antiviral computer-aided drug design - Softcover

VLACHAKIS, DIMITRIOS

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1300229748 ISBN 13: 9781300229742

Publisher: Lulu.com, 2012

Synopsis

More than 170 million people worldwide are currently chronically infected with the Hepatitis C virus. Similarly, Dengue fever infects 50 million per year in central Africa. It is the same story for so many other viruses that are members of the flaviviridae family. Disproportionally to the severity of an infection with almost all members of Flaviviridae, no specific antiviral therapy is available today. There are drugs neither for the treatment nor for the prevention upon infection. Scientists have isolated various proteins and extensively study some of them in an attempt to get information that will eventually be combined to a strategy against the viruses. Herein, an effort is made to describe the current status of antiviral research within flaviviridae, homology modelling and structure based drug design techniques that may soon lead to new generation of stratagems against flaviviridae. Finally, insights into novel technologies in drug design technology are provided.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1300229748
• ISBN 13: 9781300229742
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112