摘要:
The present invention relates to a flavonoid compound having the formula I, where R3, R5 and/or R7 is a group having the formula II, or R1 and R2 are both OH groups, or to one of the pharmaceutically acceptable salts or esters thereof, for use as an antiviral agent in the treatment and/or prevention of a hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. The invention also relates to an ex vivo method for reducing the infectivity of HCV or for inactivating HCV, including a step of contacting said hepatitis C virus with a compound having the formula (I).
摘要:
The invention relates to new methods of diagnosis of obesity, in particular morbid obesity, based on the identification of polymorphism in an intron and/or the promoter region of the WAC gene, to method of screening potential obesity therapeutics, to pharmaceutical composition comprising said therapeutics, to transgenic non-human mammal.
摘要:
A method for identifying compounds acting on weight gain or weight loss or on diabetes in a human or animal subject including measuring effect of the compounds on (a) expression of at least one of genes LEPROTL1 and OB-RGRP or a part of them and/or (b) intracellular transport up to a cellular membrane and/or (c) presence at the cellular membrane level and/or (d) internalization from the membrane of proteins coded by at least one of these genes or part of them.