Mericitabine
- US: Investigational New Drug
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Mericitabine (RG-7128) is an antiviral drug, a deoxycytidine analog (a type of nucleoside analog). It was developed as a treatment for hepatitis C, acting as a NS5B RNA polymerase inhibitor, but while it showed a good safety profile in clinical trials, it was not sufficiently effective to be used as a stand-alone agent. However mericitabine has been shown to boost the efficacy of other antiviral drugs when used alongside them, and as most modern treatment regimens for hepatitis C use a combination therapy of several antiviral drugs, clinical trials have continued to see if it can form a part of a clinically useful drug treatment program.[1][2]
See also
- BCX4430
- MK-608
- NITD008
- Valopicitabine
References
- ^ Gentile I, Coppola N, Buonomo AR, Zappulo E, Borgia G (September 2014). "Investigational nucleoside and nucleotide polymerase inhibitors and their use in treating hepatitis C virus". Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs. 23 (9): 1211–23. doi:10.1517/13543784.2014.921680. PMID 24848437. S2CID 12115460.
- ^ Wedemeyer H, Forns X, Hézode C, Lee SS, Scalori A, Voulgari A, et al. (2016). "Mericitabine and Either Boceprevir or Telaprevir in Combination with Peginterferon Alfa-2a plus Ribavirin for Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Genotype 1 Infection and Prior Null Response: The Randomized DYNAMO 1 and DYNAMO 2 Studies". PLOS ONE. 11 (1): e0145409. Bibcode:2016PLoSO..1145409W. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0145409. PMC 4713467. PMID 26752189.
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