gancyclovir造句

• If that is true, said Minna, restenosis might be prevented by giving angioplasty patients a drug, gancyclovir, that is effective against cytomegalovirus.
• Now, a research study has shown that preventive treatment with the drug gancyclovir can sharply reduce an AIDS patient's risk of developing a CMV-caused disease.
• Gancyclovir is an exception to the rule, as it is used to specifically kill cells that carry its respective marker, the Herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase ( HSV TK ).
• In test tube experiments, the team has begun testing the three marketed drugs ( acyclovir, gancyclovir and foscarnet ) used in treating other human herpes infections to determine their potential effectiveness against the Kaposi's virus.
• In the study, 486 people with advanced AIDS who took oral gancyclovir for an average of 9 months had 50 percent lower risk of CMV disease over a 12-month period than did a similar group ofpatients who took a placebo.
• The study, which was led by scientists at the University of California in San Diego, is the first to show that oral gancyclovir is both safe and effective in protecting AIDS patients with very weak immune systems from the opportunistic CMV infections.