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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.... AZT, which stands
for azido-thymidine. AZT was released under the brand name of Retrovir and it's
chemical name is Zidovudine, or ZDV. The structural name of AZT is 3'-azido-3'-
deoxythymidine. AZT works by inhibiting the process of copying DNA in cells.
More specifically, AZT, inhibits the reverse transcriptase enzyme, which is
involved in the DNA replication process. When DNA is replicating in a cell,
there is a specific enzyme that works along one side of the original DNA strand
as the DNA ....
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