SARS-CoV-2

Tia A Tummino1,2,3,4, Veronica V Rezelj5, Benoit Fischer6

  • 1Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|July 30, 2021
PubMed
概括

许多重新使用的COVID-19药物会引起脂症,这种疾病与它们的抗病毒作用有关. 这种有毒的副作用,而不是针对特定目标的活性,可能会误导SARS-CoV-2治疗的药物发现工作.

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