Reseachers show benefit of entacapone and tolcapone in drug-resistant TB strain
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Reseachers show benefit of entacapone and tolcapone in drug-resistant TB strain
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입력 2009.07.07 00:00
수정 2009.07.07 09:15
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Researchers at the University of California-San Diego found that entacapone and tolcapone could potentially treat the drug-resistant strain of TB after discovering that the chemical structure of the two Parkinson"s drugs might work to target the TB enzyme InhA. In another experiment it was found that the active ingredient in the two drugs inhibited the M. tuberculosis bacterium while allowing host cells to survive.