How to Use protease inhibitor in a Sentence

protease inhibitor

noun
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  • The candidate is a class of drug known as a protease inhibitor, which has been long used to treat HIV and hepatitis C.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The drug is a protease inhibitor, which works by inhibiting an enzyme that the virus needs to replicate in human cells.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Paxlovid is a protease inhibitor – the same type of drug that turned HIV into a manageable disease – which blocks replication of the virus.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Paxlovid, by contrast, is a protease inhibitor, much like those developed to combat HIV.
    — Stephani Sutherland, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Pfizer’s oral treatment, Paxlovid, also is a protease inhibitor.
    — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Dec. 2021
  • But little people like us, protesting in our little corners, coaxed money for research and cocktail therapies and protease inhibitors.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 May 2018
  • Because lopinavir is quickly broken down in the human body by our own proteases, it is given with low levels of ritonavir, another protease inhibitor, that lets lopinavir persist longer.
    — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 22 Mar. 2020
  • So Ho is stacking his shelves with polymerase and protease inhibitors and other drugs that have been developed to fight HIV and other viruses like viral hepatitis, that can interfere with this replication.
    — Alice Park, Time, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Scientists have now found that protease inhibitors targeted to HIV might have activity against coronavirus, despite the fact that these viruses are unrelated.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Merck scientists haven’t looked at whether molnupiravir could work safely with Paxlovid, although the drugmaker is also developing its own protease inhibitor, Dr. Hazuda said.
    — Felicia Schwartz, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2022
  • This is why these protease inhibitor drugs are ideally used in congregate living situations such as long-term care facilities, workplaces, schools, prisons, and family homes.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The drug aimed at mild to moderate cases, upamostat, is an investigational protease inhibitor that’s taken once daily for two weeks and is expected to be effective against coronavirus variants.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 3 June 2021

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