{"id":106000,"date":"2021-05-10T16:40:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T11:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=106000"},"modified":"2021-05-10T21:29:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T15:59:21","slug":"dcgi-approves-2-deoxy-d-glucose-2-dg-an-anti-covid-drug-developed-by-drdo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dcgi-approves-2-deoxy-d-glucose-2-dg-an-anti-covid-drug-developed-by-drdo\/","title":{"rendered":"DCGI approves &#8220;2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG)&#8221; &#8211; an anti-COVID drug developed by DRDO"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Defence Research and Development Organization(DRDO) has developed an anti-COVID drug named 2-deoxy-D-glucose(2-DG). Recently, the Drugs Controller General of India(DCGI) has approved this drug for emergency use.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG):<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) <\/strong>is an anti-Covid oral drug. It has been developed by the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), a lab of DRDO in collaboration with Dr Reddy\u2019s Laboratories(DRL).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How does a 2-DG drug work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 2-DG comes in powder form in the sachet. One has to take it orally by dissolving the powder in water.<\/li>\n<li>The drug accumulates in the virus-infected cells. It, thereby, prevents virus growth by stopping viral synthesis and energy production.<\/li>\n<li>The selective accumulation of the drug in virally infected cells makes this drug unique.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Significance of this drug:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>The drug helps in the faster recovery of hospitalised patients. Further, it also reduces supplemental oxygen dependence.<\/li>\n<li>A higher proportion of patients treated with 2-DG also showed RT-PCR negative conversion in Covid-19 patients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/dcgi-approves-anti-covid-drug-developed-by-drdo-for-emergency-use-7307084\/\"><strong>Indian Express<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"xTPu2CTPs5\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/inequality-in-education-system\/\">Inequality in education system<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Inequality in education system&#8221; &#8212; Free UPSC IAS Preparation For Aspirants\" src=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/inequality-in-education-system\/embed\/#?secret=oBXaXnjYui#?secret=xTPu2CTPs5\" data-secret=\"xTPu2CTPs5\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Defence Research and Development Organization(DRDO) has developed an anti-COVID drug named 2-deoxy-D-glucose(2-DG). Recently, the Drugs Controller General of India(DCGI) has approved this drug for emergency use. About 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG): 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) is an anti-Covid oral drug. It has been developed by the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dcgi-approves-2-deoxy-d-glucose-2-dg-an-anti-covid-drug-developed-by-drdo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DCGI approves &#8220;2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG)&#8221; &#8211; an anti-COVID drug developed by DRDO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8043,1566,1738,9],"tags":[1315,1289],"class_list":["post-106000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-cat","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-st_1","tag-soc_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703254695},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}