A method of inhibiting lentivirus is disclosed which comprises mammalian host susceptible to said lentivirus with a virally inhibitory effective amount of an O-acylated derivative of 1,5-dideoxy-1,5-imino-D-glucitol and their N-alkyl, N-acyl and N-aroyl derivatives in which from one to four of the free hydroxyl groups are O-acylated with carboxylic alkanoyl radicals selected from the group consisting of .omega.,.omega.,.omega.-trifluoroalkanoyl having from three to eight carbon atoms, carboxylic cycloalkanoyl groups having from four to eight carbon atoms and carboxylic acyclic alkanoyl groups having from two to ten carbon atoms, wherein the N-aroyl groups contain from 7 to 14 carbon atoms, the N-acyl groups contain from 4 to 8 carbon atoms and the N-alkyl groups contain from 1 to 14 carbon atoms.
本发明揭示了一种抑制慢病毒的方法,包括将哺乳动物宿主暴露于所述慢病毒的有效抑制量的1,5-二去氧-1,5-
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D-葡萄糖醇的O-酰化衍
生物及其N-烷基,N-酰基和N-芳酰衍
生物中,其中从一个到四个自由羟基被选自由三至八个碳原子的羧基烷酰基的.omega.,.omega.,.omega.-三氟烷酰基,含有四至八个碳原子的环烷基羧基和含有两至十个碳原子的无环烷基羧基,其中N-芳酰基含有七至十四个碳原子,N-酰基含有四至八个碳原子,N-烷基含有一至十四个碳原子。