{"id":3704,"date":"2014-12-17T12:33:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T17:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2014-12-17T12:37:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T17:37:07","slug":"over-fifty-new-potential-drugs-against-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/over-fifty-new-potential-drugs-against-ebola\/","title":{"rendered":"Over fifty new potential drugs against Ebola<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have identified 53 existing drugs that could prevent the entry of Ebola virus into human cells. To achieve this result, they screened 2816 drugs that are already approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the US.<\/p>\n<p>These drugs are already used as antibiotics, antihistamines (against allergies), antipsychotics or against cancer. They now need to be thoroughly tested in animal models to confirm their effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/emi\/journal\/v3\/n12\/full\/emi201488a.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Emerging Microbes and Infections\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>December 17<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/medbio.utoronto.ca\/faculty\/schimmer.html\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Schimmer<\/a><\/span>, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto,\u00a0Ontario<\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wei Zheng, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, USA<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have identified 53 existing drugs that could prevent the entry of Ebola virus into human cells. To achieve this result, they screened 2816 drugs that are already approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the US. These drugs are already used as antibiotics, antihistamines (against allergies), antipsychotics or against cancer. They now need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1834,2233,51,53,50,476],"class_list":["post-3704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-antibiotics","tag-ebola","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-ontario","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-XK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3708,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions\/3708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}