Scientists from the Southern Ural State University (SUSU, Chelyabinsk) synthesized and investigated new, first obtained platinum complex compounds for use as drugs in chemotherapy, as well as in the treatment of HIV, atypical pneumonia. It has been reportedTASS.
The press service of the university emphasized that the platinum complexes being investigated have unique properties, and experts found that the compounds have less toxicity and have the potential to protect enzymes in the human body that are attacked by chemotherapeutic drugs in the treatment of cancer.
The publication added that they could be important agents in the treatment of viral infections such as HIV and SARS.
Previously, it was known that Russian scientists were with foreign colleagues. developed A new type of agent against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Specialists of the Federal Research Center for Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with their American and Italian colleagues, have proposed fundamentally new compounds to combat HIV – N-phenyl-1-(phenylsulfonyl)-1H-1,2,4 -. -triazole-3-amines.