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ArticleJournal of pharmacological sciences2016

A novel rare sugar inhibitor of murine herpes simplex keratitis.

Syed Muniruzzaman, Megan McIntosh, Ahamed Hossain, Ken Izumori, Partha S Bhattacharjee

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Article in Journal of pharmacological sciences, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Syed MuniruzzamanDepartment of Biology, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Megan McIntoshU.C., Berkeley, USA.
Ahamed HossainDepartment of Biology, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Ken IzumoriRare Sugar Research Center, Kagawa University, 2393 Ikenobe, Miki, Takamatsu 761-0795, Japan.
Partha S BhattacharjeeDepartment of Biology, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, USA. Electronic address: pbhattac@xula.edu.
Xavier University of Louisiana · USKagawa University · JPUniversity of California, Berkeley · US

Funding

Xavier's RCMI Cancer Research ProgramG12MD007595 · NIMHD · XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI D'AMOUR, GENE, WANG, GUANGDI · 2012 to 2018
$15.7M
NIMHD NIH HHS G12 MD007595
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo determine the therapeutic efficacy of a novel rare sugar, l-psicose, for the treatment of HSV-1 induced herpetic stromal keratitis (HSK) in a mouse eye model.

methodsOne rare sugar l-psicose was assayed for HSV-1 inhibition of in vitro virus adsorption. The IC50 and IC90 values of l-psicose were determined using plaque reduction assay (PRA) in CV-1 cell. Female Balb/c mice were corneally infected with HSV-1, strain KOS-GFP; A topical eye drop treatment of l-psicose was started 24 h after infection and continued four times daily for ten consecutive days. The severity of HSK was monitored by slit lamp examination in a masked fashion and Infectious HSV-1 shedding was determined by PRA.

resultsl-psicose was found to have anti-viral activity in vitro at an IC50 dose of 99.5 mM and an IC90 dose of 160 mM. Topical eye drop treatment with 200 mM l-psicose in PBS solution significantly reduced the severity of HSK compared to the mock treatment group. The in vivo mouse ocular model results of l-psicose therapy correlated with accelerated clearance of virus from eye swabs.

conclusionThe results suggest that topical treatment with rare sugar l-psicose has efficacy against HSK through inhibition of HSV-1.

Indexed as

Administration, TopicalAnimalsAntiviral AgentsDisease Models, AnimalEyeFemaleFructoseHerpesvirus 1, HumanKeratitis, HerpeticMice, Inbred BALB CMice, Inbred C57BLAntiviral AgentsFructosepsicoseEye dropHerpes simplex keratitisHSV-1l-psicoseRare sugar

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PMID27262904
PMCPMC5499707
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