ganciclovir

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ganciclovir

A synthetic guanine derivative with antiviral activity. As the active metabolite of ganciclovir, ganciclovir-5-triphosphate (ganciclovir-TP) appears to inhibit viral DNA synthesis by competitive inhibition of viral DNA polymerases and incorporation into viral DNA, resulting in eventual termination of viral DNA elongation. ganciclovir

A synthetic guanine derivative with antiviral activity. As the active metabolite of ganciclovir, ganciclovir-5-triphosphate (ganciclovir-TP) appears to inhibit viral DNA synthesis by competitive inhibition of viral DNA polymerases and incorporation into viral DNA, resulting in eventual termination of viral DNA elongation.

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Controlling the Troll Mar 20, 2006
Annals of Internal Medicine Acyclovir is clearly less potent than ganciclovir (3) and is never used for preemptive therapy or therapy of established CMV disease, but as Kalil and ...

Strategies To Prevent Organ Disease by Cytomegalovirus in Solid ... Mar 20, 2006
Annals of Internal Medicine ...preemptive therapy. Of interest, both of these studies have the words "preemptive ganciclovir therapy" in their titles. After considering ...

Can Ayurveda cure HIV/AIDS? Nov 17, 2005
Newindpress, He said the costs of the three therapies for 28 days - IV Ganciclovir, Valganciclovir and IV Foscarnet – amounted to Rs 56,000, Rs 84,000 and Rs 1,60,000 ...


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