How to Use protease inhibitor in a Sentence

protease inhibitor

noun
  • 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
  • Pfizer’s oral treatment, Paxlovid, also is a protease inhibitor.
    — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Paxlovid, by contrast, is a protease inhibitor, much like those developed to combat HIV.
    — Stephani Sutherland, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But a protease is an enzyme that is involved in copying a virus’ genetic material, which meant that testing a protease inhibitor would involve using live viruses.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 28 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Indeed, that is what happened with the introduction of protease inhibitors that extended lives dramatically.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 12 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • With the development of additional protease inhibitors, when used in combination with each other, Antiretroviral Therapy became the method of treatment.
    — Steve Bender, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2026
  • In December 1995 the FDA approved the first protease inhibitor, Saquinavir, which actually stopped the virus from replicating.
    — Steve Bender, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2026
  • After 1996, when the protease inhibitors were developed, the duty to warn continued to be an important standard when HIV status became more clinically covert.
    — M. Sara Rosenthal, STAT, 25 June 2026
  • 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

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