{"id":91476,"date":"2019-05-31T14:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T21:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/certain-antidepressants-could-provide-treatment-for-multiple-infectious-diseases"},"modified":"2019-05-31T14:02:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T21:02:21","slug":"certain-antidepressants-could-provide-treatment-for-multiple-infectious-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/certain-antidepressants-could-provide-treatment-for-multiple-infectious-diseases","title":{"rendered":"Certain antidepressants could provide treatment for multiple infectious diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/certain-antidepressants-could-provide-treatment-for-multiple-infectious-diseases.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some antidepressants could potentially be used to treat a wide range of diseases caused by bacteria living within cells, according to work by researchers in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and collaborators at other institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Research published in the April print edition of the journal <i>Life Science Alliance<\/i>, shows that <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/antidepressant+drugs\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">antidepressant drugs<\/a> called FIASMAs, including desipramine, amitriptyline, and nortriptyline, halt the growth or kill four different intracellular bacterial pathogens in tissue cell culture and animal models.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAntibiotic options for diseases caused by intracellular bacteria are limited because many of these drugs cannot penetrate our cell membranes. In essence, the bacteria are protected,\u201d said Jason Carlyon, Ph.D., leader of the study and professor in the VCU Department of Microbiology and Immunology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-05-antidepressants-treatment-multiple-infectious-diseases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some antidepressants could potentially be used to treat a wide range of diseases caused by bacteria living within cells, according to work by researchers in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and collaborators at other institutions. Research published in the April print edition of the journal Life Science Alliance, shows that antidepressant drugs called [\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-91476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91476","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=91476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}