Rafaela das Dores Pereira, Rayane Aparecida Nonato Rabelo, Natália Fernanda de Melo Oliveira, Samuel Luiz Teixeira Porto, Ana Claudia Dos Santos Pereira Andrade, Celso M Queiroz-Junior, César Luís Nascimento Barbosa, Luiz Pedro de Souza-Costa, Felipe Rocha da Silva Santos, Fernando Bento Rodrigues Oliveira, Bárbara Luísa Vieira da Silva, Hanna L Umezu, Raquel Ferreira, Glauber S F da Silva, Jader Santos Cruz, Mauro Martins Teixeira, Vivian Vasconcelos Costa, Fabiana Simão Machado
Exacerbated inflammatory responses are a hallmark of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Zileuton (Zi) is a selective inhibitor of 5-lipoxygenase, an enzyme involved in the production of several inflammatory/pro-resolving lipid mediators. Herein, we investigated the effect of Zi treatment in a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) model. Mouse hepatitis virus (MHV)3-infected mice treated with Zi significantly improved the clinical score, weight loss, cardiopulmonary function, and survival rates compared with infected untreated animals...
October 4, 2023: Viruses