The antiviral drug ganciclovir does not inhibit microglial proliferation and activation

Ganciclovir is effective in the treatment of human infections with viruses of the Herpesviridae family. Beside antiviral properties, recently ganciclovir was described to inhibit microglial proliferation and disease severity of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, an inflammatory model of mult...

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Main Authors: Skripuletz, Thomas, Salinas Tejedor, Laura, Prajeeth, Chittappen K., Hansmann, Florian, Chhatbar, Chintan, Kucman, Valeria, Zhang, Ning, Raddatz, Barbara B., Detje, Claudia N., Sühs, Kurt-Wolfram, Pul, Refik, Gudi, Viktoria, Kalinke, Ulrich, Baumgärtner, Wolfgang, Stangel, Martin
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4597339/