科学美国人60秒:止痛剂或变身成为未来的抗生素
日期:2014-04-03 16:24

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中英文本

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The pain-relieving effects of drugs like ibuprofen are well known.
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But ibuprofen and its relatives, known as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, may someday have another use—as antibiotics.
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Researchers tested three anti-inflammatory drugs: bromfenac, used in eye drops, and carprofen and vedaprofen, both for treating conditions like arthritis in dogs.
研究人员们测试的三种抗炎药物为用于滴眼液的溴芬酸,用于治疗狗类关节炎症的卡洛芬和维达洛芬WMh32blbbKE
Investigators found that all three drugs bind to something called the "DNA clamp" in bacteria.
经研究调查人员发现这三种药物都能和细菌中被称为“DNA 夹”的物质进行连接A[Hbvbq1N5
That clamp is essential to repairing and replicating DNA.
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By jamming it, the painkillers can actually kill live E.coli—in a test tube, at least.
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The findings appear in the journal Chemistry & Biology.
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Study author Aaron Oakley, of Australia's University of Wollongong, says we still need clinical trials to tell if this trick holds true in humans.
该研究的作者澳大利亚伍伦贡大学的阿伦奥克莱表示仍然需要临床试验来证明这一方法在人类身上起效hB6viQVqhPDk4J|APn+
But this study is a first step.
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"I guess it alerts a lot of clinicians to the fact that some of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories that they're using may have this off-target effect."
“我想这会为许多医师敲响警钟,那就是一些非类固醇类的抗炎药物在使用时也许能会产生脱靶效应hZ[B@Ayj6Vc)Qf。”
And it gives drug developers—like Oakley and his colleagues—a whole new way to attack antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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词语解释

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1.eye drops 滴眼剂

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The eye drops are working.
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Eye drops feel like tears and make us sad.
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2.bind to 捆绑,安排

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You can bind to either typed or untyped datasets.
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It is not that the pollutants do not bind to the protein-they do.
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3.essential to 对…必不可少

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Stimulus was essential to cushion a collapse in private demand.
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It is essential to cognitive fitness.
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4.clinical trial 临床试验

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Now a larger clinical trial is under way.
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In 2000, these two firms began a clinical trial of such a vaccine.
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重点单词
  • cognitiveadj. 认知的,认识的,有认识力的
  • bacterian. (复数)细菌
  • antibioticsn. 抗生素,抗生学
  • trialadj. 尝试性的; 审讯的 n. 尝试,努力,试验,试
  • collapsen. 崩溃,倒塌,暴跌 v. 倒塌,崩溃,瓦解,折叠
  • clinicaladj. 临床的
  • essentialn. 要素,要点 adj. 必要的,重要的,本质的
  • vaccinen. 疫苗
  • fitnessn. 适合度(生物学术语) n. 健康