Protease inhibitors are one type of antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV. Their goal is to reduce the amount of HIV virus in the body to levels that are undetectable. That said, protease ...

But unlike the many, more common antiviral drugs that can be used to fight against viruses such as flus, protease inhibitors can also be used to help combat HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).

Corticosteroid injections can lead to dysfunctions in cortisol levels in people taking HIV protease inhibitors, according to research published in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune ...

The HIV protease cleaves large polyprotein precursors at specific sites, releasing the structural proteins and enzymes necessary for the assembly of infectious viral particles. In the absence of a ...

In addition to HIV treatment, doctors may also use Descovy ... Doctors often use ritonavir (Norvir) as a booster drug for protease inhibitors. Due to their side effects, indinavir, nelfinavir ...

Here is a list of FDA-approved nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors and the year they were approved: Protease inhibitors are drugs used to treat HIV, along with viral infections such as ...

A new UVA study finds that HIV drugs like NRTIs may reduce Alzheimer's risk by 10% annually, suggesting potential for ...

We assessed the strategy of substituting nevirapine, efavirenz, or abacavir for a protease inhibitor in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in whom virologic ...

Delayed HIV treatment initiation, use of protease inhibitors for more than a year, tobacco use and sleep apnoea increase the odds of erectile dysfunction among cisgender men living with HIV, according ...

HIV is mainly spread through certain body fluids, not saliva. Saliva contains protective enzymes like SLPI, making oral transmission extremely rare, even through kissing.

Figure 1: Structural organization of Gag-Pol polyprotein in HIV-1. We speculated that the low catalytic activity of the native p6 pol-protease precursor that is observed preceding its maturation ...