All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 June Daily drops may have potential to guard against COVID-19 Daily drops may have potential to guard against COVID-19 03/06/2020 | 4 MINS Daily low-dose oral interferon in the form of nose drops, lozenges or mouth spray could have a key role to play in protecting pandemic frontline workers by triggering the immune system to constantly run in defence mode, says LITΓÇÖs pioneering interferon researcher Associate Professor Manfred Beilharz. Interferons are named for their ability to 'interfere' with viral replication by protecting cells from virus infections. Interferons do not directly kill viral or cancerous cells; they boost the immune system response and reduce the growth of cancer cells by regulating the action of several genes that control the secretion of numerous cellular proteins that affect growth. Costing only a few cents per dose to produce, studies at LIT and in collaborating laboratories around the world have shown that administering a few drops of the signalling protein type 1 interferon in the mouth or nasal passages inter
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 June Daily drops may have potential to guard against COVID-19 Daily drops may have potential to guard against COVID-19 03/06/2020 | 4 MINS Daily low-dose oral interferon in the form of nose drops, lozenges or mouth spray could have a key role to play in protecting pandemic frontline workers by triggering the immune system to constantly run in defence mode, says LITΓÇÖs pioneering interferon researcher Associate Professor Manfred Beilharz.
Interferons are named for their ability to 'interfere' with viral replication by protecting cells from virus infections.
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Interferons do not directly kill viral or cancerous cells; they boost the immune system response and reduce the growth of cancer cells by regulating the action of several genes that control the secretion of numerous cellular proteins that affect growth.
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