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AZT
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The AIDS virus is one of the most deadly and most wide spread diseases
in the modern era. The disease was first found in 1981 as doctors around the
United States began to report groups of young, homosexual men developing a rare
pneumonia caused by an organism called Penumocystis carini. These patie ....
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required to work in the opposite direction. Reverse transcriptase is one of the
enzymes that is required to work in the opposite direction. AZT works by bonding
to the reverse transcriptase enzyme, thereby making it unable to bond with the
nucleotide string and making it unable to fulfill it's role. This whole process
is used by the HIV virus to replicate itself so that it can continue to infect
more cells.
AZT was originally developed over 20 years ago for the treatment of
lukemia. The conce.... |
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