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Chronic Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors Disrupt Mitochondrial Homeostasis And Promote Premature Endothelial Senescence, Yi-Fan Chen
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) has been hugely successful in reducing the mortality associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, resulting in a growing population of people living with HIV (PLWH). Since PLWH now have a longer life expectancy, chronic comorbidities have become the focus of the clinical management of HIV. For example, cardiovascular complications are now one of the most prevalent causes of death in PLWH. Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) are the backbone of cART, and two NRTIs are typically used in combination with one drug from another drug class, such as a non-NRTI, a protease inhibitor or an …