Word: intracellular
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...swelling in the lungs, a result of the body's own immune-system response. In Hong Kong, doctors claim they are successfully combating the disease using the antiviral drug ribavirin to inhibit the virus combined with corticosteroids to check an overstimulated immune response. Ribavirin works by interfering with intracellular viral replication, slowing the infection's spread within the body. The problem, as microbiologist Professor John Tam of CUHK points out, is that "if you stop the replication, that means you stop the function of the cell...
...particular, he was fascinated by how the extracellular matrix—the jelly-like substance surrounding cells—affects intracellular processes. Much of Bernfield’s work involved the isolation and characterization of proteoglycans, proteins of the extracellular matrix with key roles in tissue development...