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ArticleRevista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo2025

Nanobodies as antivirals against rabies in experimentally infected mice.

Washington Carlos Agostinho, Viviana Parreño, Celina Guadalupe Vega, Matias Aduriz, Carolina Moura de Oliveira, Sheila Olivera de Sousa Silva, Joana Aguiar, Sueli Akemi Taniwaki, Paulo Eduardo Brandão

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Article in Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Washington Carlos AgostinhoUniversidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Departamento de Medicina Veterinária e Preventiva e Saúde Animal, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8576-842X
Viviana ParreñoInstituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0385-5592
Celina Guadalupe VegaInstituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0644-7263
Matias AdurizInstituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9464-1401
Carolina Moura de OliveiraUniversidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Departamento de Medicina Veterinária e Preventiva e Saúde Animal, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-1987-0037
Sheila Olivera de Sousa SilvaUniversidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Departamento de Medicina Veterinária e Preventiva e Saúde Animal, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6154-0009
Joana AguiarUniversidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Departamento de Medicina Veterinária e Preventiva e Saúde Animal, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-1608
Sueli Akemi TaniwakiUniversidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Departamento de Medicina Veterinária e Preventiva e Saúde Animal, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6355-7015
Paulo Eduardo BrandãoUniversidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Departamento de Medicina Veterinária e Preventiva e Saúde Animal, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0213-7839

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite its 100% lethality and approximately 59,000 human deaths every year, rabies still lacks an effective treatment. Numerous trials have aimed to impair the life cycle of Lyssavirus rabies (RABV), the primary worldwide lyssavirus causing rabies, but with limited success. Treatments targeting host factors and attempting to mitigate the damage caused by RABV have also been unsatisfactory. This article describes the effects of intracerebral transfection of anti-RABV recombinant monoclonal nanobodies as antivirals against rabies in vivo, in a post-exposure protocol. Mice were intranasally inoculated with the RABV CVS strain and, 72 h later, were injected via the intracerebral route with two different anti-RABV llama-derived VHH nanobodies complexed with a transfection agent. One of the VHHs was able to reduce the viral load in mice, but no significant effect on survival was detected. Though not completely effective, nanobody therapy could be attempted in association with other antivirals to improve therapies against rabies.

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Antibodies, ViralAntiviral AgentsRabiesRabies virusSingle-Domain AntibodiesAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalFemaleMiceMice, Inbred BALB CTransfectionViral LoadAntibodies, ViralAntiviral AgentsSingle-Domain Antibodies

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PMCPMC12499517

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