title: Antiviral effect of pyran against systemic infection of mice with herpes simplex virus type 2.
abstract: The immunomodulator pyran markedly protected 5-week-old mice from lethal intravenous infection with herpes simplex virus type 2. The 50% lethal dose was increased almost 100-fold in pyran-treated mice as compared with controls. Although the protection was not as marked in older mice (10 and 16 weeks old), there was a significant increase in mean survival time. When the pathogenesis of herpesvirus disease was monitored in control and drug-treated mice, the effect of pyran was most evident in the spinal cord, where virus was recovered from 20 of 25 control mice and from only 6 of 25 pyran-treated mice. There was also a significant reduction in the titer of virus present, and virus appeared later in the spinal cord of pyran-treated mice than in control mice. The protective effect of pyran was observed only when the drug was administered 24 h before viral challenge, was seen after both intraperitoneal and intravenous injection, and was not due to direct inactivation of the virus.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006561:Herpes Simplex / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D011714:Pyrans / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D018139:Simplexvirus / Q000187:drug effects; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D011714:Pyrans