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Zidovudine
A thymidine analogue that inhibits HIV reverse transcriptase. Approved in the United States in March 1987, it was the first medicine against HIV and AIDS; it is also used to reduce transmission of the virus from mother to child during pregnancy and birth. This family brings together the active ingredient, pharmacopoeial impurities, metabolites and other impurities.
Did you know?It was synthesised in 1964 in Detroit by the chemist Jerome Horwitz as a possible cancer drug: it proved ineffective and was almost forgotten for twenty years, until its activity against HIV was discovered.
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EDQM standards 4
The official European Pharmacopoeia standards for this family.
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Custom synthesis of impurities, metabolites and labelled compounds, with the same characterisation level.
