How to Use protease inhibitor in a Sentence

protease inhibitor

noun

• 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
• Viracept became the best-selling drug in its class, called a protease inhibitor.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2022
• 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
• Viracept’s approval thrusts Agouron, a company with 540 employees and no sales to date, into competition with Merck, which markets Crixivan, now the best-selling protease inhibitor.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2022
• 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

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024