{"id":755,"date":"2009-01-17T13:31:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T12:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=755"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:17:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:17:24","slug":"what-does-the-word-analogue-mean-in-hiv-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/755","title":{"rendered":"What does the word &#039;analogue&#039; mean in HIV treatment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analogue (spelt analog in the U.S.) is a word the means &#8216;similar&#8217; in terms of a being a copy of something.<\/p>\n<p>The full name for the family of HIV drugs called &#8216;nukes&#8217; is &#8216;nucleoside analogues&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the active ingredient of the drug is actually a copy of the genetic material (a nucleoside) used by the virus to reproduce.<\/p>\n<p>The drug switches places with the natural nucleoside and blocks the reproduction process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Nukes&#8217; are also called Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors because they block the process called reverse transcription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analogue (spelt analog in the U.S.) is a word the means &#8216;similar&#8217; in terms of a being a copy of something. The full name for the family of HIV drugs called &#8216;nukes&#8217; is &#8216;nucleoside analogues&#8217;. This means that the active &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}