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Balzarini J, Celen S, Karlsson A, de Groot T, Verbruggen A, Bormans G., The effect of a methyl or 2-fluoroethyl substituent at the N-3 position of thymidine, 3'-fluoro-3'-deoxythymidine and 1-beta-D-arabinosylthymine on their antiviral and cytostatic activity in cell culture, Antivir Chem Chemother.
240:, 3'-fluoro-3'-deoxythymidine (FLT) and 3'-fluorodideoxyguanosine (FLG), and the NNRTI's 1--6-phenylthiothymine (HEPT), tetrahydro-imidazo-benzodiazepine-2(1H)-one and -thione (TIBO) and alpha-anilinophenylacetamide (alpha-APA) were first described at the Rega Institute. The anti-viral drugs 226:
Rudi Pauwels, Koen Andries, Jan Desmyter, Dominique Schols, Michael J. Kukla, Henry J. Breslin, Alfons Raeymaeckers, Jozef Van Gelder, Robert Woestenborghs, Jozef Heykants, Karel Schellekens, Marcel A. C. Janssen, Erik De Clercq, Paul A. J. Janssen, Potent and selective inhibition of HIV-1
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binding site. The NNRTIs block the normal enzymatic activity of the RT and thereby interrupt the replication cycle of HIV. As a result of the "Rega-Janssen" cooperation several prototypes of NNRTIs, among which the so-called TIBO ("TetrahydroImidazoBenzodiazepinOne") and alpha-APA
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De Clercq E., Chemotherapy of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS): non-nucleoside inhibitors of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase, Int J Immunopharmacol. 1991;13 Suppl
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in the 18th century. The building of the Rega Institute was constructed in 1954 and paid for by the company
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replication in vitro by a novel series of TIBO derivatives, Nature 343, 470 - 474 (1 February 1990).
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In 1987, the Rega Institute entered into a cooperation with
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The Rega Institute was founded in 1954 within the unitary
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50°52′39.95″N 4°41′45.06″E / 50.8777639°N 4.6958500°E / 50.8777639; 4.6958500

Catholic University of Leuven
Leuven
Belgium
medicine
pharmacology
Catholic University of Leuven
Pieter De Somer
Henri-Joseph Rega
Old University of Leuven
Recherche et Industrie Thérapeutiques
Rixensart
Dutch-speaking
Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven

Janssen Pharmaceutica
Paul Janssen
HIV
Reverse Transcriptase
NNRTI
NRTI
dATP
allosteric
Tibotec
Rilpivirine
nevirapine
efavirenz
d4T
Brivudine

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