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Protease inhibitors are considered one of the most potent medications for HIV developed so far.
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Is neurotoxin or protease more dangerous?
Though they are both inhibitors, I would say Protease.
What are some common inhibitors?
if my memory is good, hepititis C protease, inhibits protease stopping activity
The most commonly used treatment for HIV infection is?
protease inhibitors :)
What blocks HIV binding to host cell receptors?
Protease inhibitors.
What is HIV protease inhibitor?
Protease inhibitors (PIs) are a class of medications used to treat or prevent infection by viruses, including HIV and Hepatitis C. PIs prevent viral replication by inhibiting the activity of HIV-1 protease, an enzyme used by the viruses to cleave nascent proteins for final assembly of new virons.
What is protease inhibition?
Protease Inhibitors are a class of medications used to treat patients with the HIV virus. They are designed to prevent an already infected cell from reproducing (therefore inhibiting the virus from copying itself).
Drugs which fight HIV by deactivating an enzyme which the virus needs to be able to in fect human blood cells?
Protease inhibitors.
What is protease inhibition therapy?
Protease Inhibitors are a class of medications used to treat patients with the HIV virus. They are designed to prevent an already infected cell from reproducing (therefore inhibiting the virus from copying itself).
What services does ViiV Healthcare provide?
Viiv Healthcare provides several products and services for HIV treatment. They provide nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors such as Combivir and Epivir and protease inhibitors such as Lexiva and Viracept.
How many drugs have been approved for use against HIV?
There is no cure for HIV, however the drug classes that are used to treat HIV are Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs), Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), Protease inhibitors (PIs), Entry or fusion inhibitors, and Integrase inhibitors
How is protease related to AIDS?
The third class of antiretroviral drugs developed against HIV were the protease inhibitors. These work far back in the life cycle of HIV, after host cell integration but before budding. These drugs affect the enzyme protease, which is used to cut up the HIV protein to be packaged into virions. When the cell produces HIV proteins, the raw material is in a long connected string. The enzyme protease acts as a "scissor" to cut up the string into the protein for each virion. Protease inhibitors prevent protease from doing this. They resemble pieces of the protein string that protease usually cuts. This disrupts the cutting process, which prevents the chain from being cut into small pieces, which prevents HIV from making copies of itself.
What is Plant protease inhibitors a defense strategy in plants?
Possible a defense against viruses. Some viruses have proteases in their reproductive cycle.
