hii..friends as all of us are now well aware of SWINE FLU..there are several drugs coming to the market..one of which is TAMIFLU..which has being widely used in majority of the cases..so it'll be interesting to know about its functioning..
Its an antiviral drug marketed by Swiss pharmaceutical company 'ROCHE' it belongs to the group of drugs called neuraminidase inhibitors and can shorten and lessen the severity of both Type A and B strains of flu as well as bird flu. It targets the neuraminidase protein which is present in the flu virus cells.The neuraminidase protein helps the virus to break through the cell walls so it can move on to the other cells and replicate itself.
Tamiflu inhibits the neuraminidase protein ,so that virus cannot leave the cell and cannot infect the other cells. Eventually the virus dies.
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