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In vitro Inhibition of HHV-6 replication by sophocarpines
Hamida B Qavi1, Philip R Wyde, Mushtaq A Khan
1Department of Biochemistry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Phytotherapy Research : PTR
|April 5, 2002
Abstract:
The virostatic activity of sophocarpines and gancyclovir (GCV) was tested using HHV-6 Z29 strain and Molt-3 cells. The cytotoxic (IC(50)) and the antiviral (ED(50)) values were first experimentally determined and selective indices (SI) were then calculated. The SI values for sophocarpines 1 and 2 and GCV were in the order 184, 183, and 23, respectively. Though preliminary, these findings indicate that sophocarpines have the potential to inhibit HHV-6 replication.