nucleoside

Examples

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• Nucleoside analogues are promising because they complement drugs which modify the immune system.

  Academic text (1994)

• Ribavirin is a nucleoside with an unknown mechanism of action.

  Academic text (2007)

• So I'm going to describe to you what are known as nucleoside analogues.

• Lamivudine, the newest nucleoside analogue to be released, may be especially useful in this respect.

  Academic text (2000)

• Telbivudine is a synthetic thymidine nucleoside analogue with activity against HBV.

  Blog text (2)

• However, all nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors carry the risk of lactic acidosis and severe hepatomegaly.

  Academic text (2005)

• Viral resistance to the nucleoside inhibitors of reverse transcriptase may result from multiple drug-resistant strains and can involve at least five different mutations.

  Academic text (2000)

• Use of antiretroviral therapy in the cohort began in 1987, and by 1991, nearly 50% of the seropositive cohort was on single or combination nucleoside therapy.

  Academic text (2002)

• Lamivudine, the first nucleoside analogue inhibitor to be approved for the treatment of CHB, has long been used for both HIV and HBV infection during pregnancy and has displayed reliable prevention effects.

  Blog text (2)

• As an orally bioavailable L-nucleoside analogue with potent activity against HBV, telbivudine has shown no effects on human nucleotides and DNA synthesis.

  Blog text (2)

Compounds

N

non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor

• Specialized

9.5

A drug that stops HIV changing its genetic material and is used with other medicines

N

nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor

• Specialized

6.6

An HIV drug that joins viral DNA and stops the enzyme that copies the virus

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