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... for COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for anti-viral therapies to treat respiratory virus infections . With a vaccine ... repurposing (using clinically approved drugs which also have anti-viral activity) offers hope in fast-tracking therapies to possibly treat ... infections. Viruses, including coronaviruses, hijack GFRs to support infection. They suggest that repurposing existing oncologic drugs could ...
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... for a first-in-class nasal spray to protect people from respiratory viral diseases such as COVID-19 and influenza. Encouraging preliminary ... for a first-in-class nasal spray to protect people from respiratory viral diseases such as COVID-19 and influenza. Hunter Medical Research ... the airways to more rapidly and effectively respond to a viral infection,” Associate Prof Bartlett said. “HMRI’s proof of concept ...
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... viruses implicated, accounting for 2/3 of infections detected. RV infection is therefore the greatest single precipitant of acute ... abnormal immune responses to RV infection including deficient anti-viral immunity and exaggerated expression of mediators that can ... processes that underpin disease. However it is still unclear how viral infection of airway epithelium activates type-2 immunity to cause ...
Category: Research
... their immune system is too suppressed, patients are at risk of severe infection; if it is not suppressed enough, they are at risk of rejecting ... from 30% to 100% depending on the country, patient population and viral subtype. There are no data from Australia. There is preliminary ... evidence that the amount of this virus in blood (known as the “viral load”) is an indirect measure of immune function: a high viral ...
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... research interest is the study of respiratory disease caused by viral infection. This includes the study of mechanisms involved in bouts of ... Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, focusing on the role of early life viral infections, and the initial events of the host-response to virus ...
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... CCL7/MCP-3 expression a highly upregulated chemokine during RV infection and previously associated with the development of allergic ... the generation of an effective antiviral response to RV that limits viral replication and Th2 dominated airways inflammation. Research ...
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... the risk for lung damage long term, among other symptoms. The role of viral infections in the exacerbation of asthma and airways diseases such ...
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... COVID-19 and is spread mainly through skin-to-skin contact. It’s a viral disease that occurs primarily in Central and West Africa. ... illness”); followed by a rash and usually appear 7-14 days after infection. The rash is similar to smallpox, but is usually only in one ... about 3 weeks. Professor Davis said only one case had acquired the infection in NSW, and two others were infected in Australia. At the ...
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... that seems to be overexpressed on cancer cells, it undergoes an infection in that cell and makes the cancer cell look more foreign to ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... or doesn’t repair itself properly following a minor insult like a viral infection. In order to understand how the epithelial cells and ... of these Modelling compressive and shear stress forces Viral infection Lung biobanking Affiliations HMRI VIVA Priority ...
