Antiretroviral Therapy

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The antiretroviral therapy ( ART ) is a drug treatment strategy for HIV -patients. Here come u. a. " Reverse transcriptase inhibitors" is used ( NRTI , NNRTI ), which is a key enzyme block of HIV replication in the infected cells. In the replication cycle, this enzyme has the task of producing a DNA copy from the RNA of the virus and introducing it into the genome of the cell, making the virus genome part of the human host cell. The generation of DNA according to an existing RNA pattern is the reverse of the normal process, namely transcription, to which genetic information is otherwise subject in the body, by the virus; hence the name ( retrograde = retrograde; reverse = reversed).

Antiretroviral therapy can slow down the replication of the virus in the body and delay the onset of the disease considerably (decades) or prevent it, but ultimately it cannot completely remove the HIV virus from the body. It is only effective if taken regularly.

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