NOUN
- an antiviral drug used against HIV; is incorporated into the DNA of the virus and stops the building process; results in incomplete DNA that cannot create a new virus; often used in combination with other drugs
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- It's a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, or an NRTi, in AIDS speak. Charles Karel Bouley: HIV Prevention Drug: Thanks, But No Thanks
- Most importantly, delayed chain termination protects ETV-MP from phosphorolytic excision, which represents a major resistance mechanism for approved NRTIs. Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue
- Studies suggest that NRTI treatment of HIV patients causes mitochondrial myopathy, including ragged red fibers, cardiac myopathy with cardiac dilation and failure, neuropathy and lactic acidosis.
- This study shows that the addition of short course AZT and 3TC (for either 4 or 7 d) to sdNVP, initiated at the same time as the dose of NVP for PMTCT in antiretroviral-naïve pregnant women and their infants, results in a reduction in the proportion of mothers with new NNRTI-resistant mutations, when measured at 2 and 6 wk postdelivery. PLoS Medicine: New Articles
- All three drugs are known as non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor drugs, or NNRTIs. ANC Daily News Briefing
