{"id":107093,"date":"2020-05-15T08:45:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/cat-coronavirus-drug-shows-promise-for-treatment-of-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-05-15T08:45:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:45:16","slug":"cat-coronavirus-drug-shows-promise-for-treatment-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/cat-coronavirus-drug-shows-promise-for-treatment-of-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Cat coronavirus drug shows promise for treatment of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cat-coronavirus-drug-shows-promise-for-treatment-of-covid-19.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joanne Lemieux and colleagues say the dipeptide-based protease inhibitor, GC376, and its analog, GC373, should be fast-forwarded for testing in clinical trials of COVID-19. The research is published on the preprint server <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.05.03.073080v1\" rel=\"noopener\">bioRxiv<\/a><\/em>*.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are strong drug candidates for the treatment of human coronavirus infections because they have already been successful in animals (cats),\u201d writes the team. \u201cThe work here lays the framework for their use in human trials for the treatment of COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joanne Lemieux and colleagues say the dipeptide-based protease inhibitor, GC376, and its analog, GC373, should be fast-forwarded for testing in clinical trials of COVID-19. The research is published on the preprint server bioRxiv*. \u201cThey are strong drug candidates for the treatment of human coronavirus infections because they have already been successful in animals (cats),\u201d writes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}