Maoto, a Traditional Japanese Herbal Medicine, Inhibits Uncoating of Influenza Virus

Figure 4

Maoto did not induce an intracellular antiviral molecule related to type I or type III IFNs in influenza virus infection. A549 cells infected with PR8 were cultured with or without maoto, and mRNA levels of IFN-β, IFN-λ1, PKR, and MxA were measured by real-time PCR. < 0.05 versus medium only.

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